Southport, CT – On Wednesday, September 17, at 7:00pm, Michael White, the award-winning author of six novels, will discuss his research and what it involves in a talk at Pequot Library, 720 Pequot Ave., Southport. He will give short readings to illustrate his points. White just returned from Berlin where he did research for his new book on WWll. This program is good for writers in all genres – fiction, nonfiction, and memoir.
White wrote Soul Catcher, which was a Booksense and Historical Novels Review selection, as well as a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award, A Brother’s Blood, which was a New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers nominee; The Blind Side of the Heart, an Alternate Book-of-the-Month Club selection; A Dream of Wolves, which received starred reviews from Booklist and Publisher’s Weekly, and is under option by Miracle Pictures; and The Garden of Martyrs, also a Connecticut Book Award finalist. His latest novel (William Morrow, 2010) is Beautiful Assassin. A collection of his short stories, Marked Men, was published by the University of Missouri Press. He has also published over 45 short stories in national magazines and journals, and has won the Advocate Newspapers Fiction Award and been nominated for both a National Magazine Award and a Pushcart. He was the founding editor of the yearly fiction anthology American Fiction as well as Dogwood.
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