Bethel’s Byrd’s Books honors legendary author E.L. Doctorow on December 14

Bethel’s Byrd’s Books Invites Authors Richard Ford & Bruce Weber to Honor Legendary Author, E.L. Doctorow

A Special Online Edition of Write America on Tuesday, December 14th

Author E.L. Doctorow is the writer of such well-known works of fiction as Welcome to Hard Times, The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake, World's Fair, Billy Bathgate, The Waterworks, City of God, The March, Homer & Langley, and Andrew's Brain. On Tuesday, December 14th, 7:00pm to 8:00pm, Bethel’s Byrd’s Books, now the home of the prestigious online series, Write America, has invited authors Richard Ford and Bruce Weber to honor the legendary writer. Write America, which is presented over the Crowdcast Channel, is the brainchild of author Roger Rosenblatt and is hosted by Byrd’s Books owner, Alice Hutchinson.

To register for this free special episode of Write America, which will complete almost a year of weekly author conversations by the arrival of 2022, go to https://bit.ly/3Gd1lMl 

Richard Ford, a resident of Boothbay, Maine, is the author of The Sportswriter and its Pulitzer Prize-winning sequel, Independence Day. He is winner of the Prix Femina in France, the 2019 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, and the Princess of Asturias Award in Spain. He is also the author of the New YorkTimes bestseller Canada. His story collections include Let Me Be Frank with You, Rock Springs, and A Multitude of Sins.

Bruce Weber, a reporter for The New York Times, began his career in publishing as a fiction editor at Esquire. He has written for numerous publications and is the author of the New York Times bestseller As They See 'Em: A Fan's Travels in the Land of Umpires, coauthor (with Savion Glover) of Savion! My Life in Tap, and the editor of Look Who's Talking: An Anthology of Voices in the Modern American Short Story. 

E.L. Doctorow (1931-2015) counts among his honors the National Book Award, three National Book Critics Circle awards, two PEN/Faulkner awards, and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. In 2009 he was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, honoring a writer's lifetime achievement in fiction, and in 2012 he won the PEN/ Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, given to an author whose "scale of achievement over a sustained career places him in the highest rank of American literature." In 2013 the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the Gold Medal for Fiction. In 2014 he was honored with the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. For an extended bio, visit https://bit.ly/3E169DN

Byrd’s Books is located at 178 Greenwood Avenue, Bethel, CT, across from the Bethel Public Library. To review the shop’s expanded catalog of new titles, go to ByrdsBooks.com