Author Amy Bloom to Visit Darien Library

Darien Library and Barrett Bookstore are thrilled to welcome author Amy Bloom to discuss her latest book, In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss.

Amy Bloom won acclaim for both her fiction and nonfiction triumphs, including two New York Times bestselling novels. Now, with her next book, Amy turns the lens inwards in a courageous memoir that serves as a portrait of her marriage and a glimpse into her and her husband’s last journey together.

This event will take place on Tuesday, March 22 in the Darien Library’s Community Room. Register on Darien Library’s website at www.darienlibrary.org/event/5648.

Amy Bloom is the author of Come to Me, a National Book Award finalist; A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Love Invents Us; Normal; Away, a New York Times bestseller; Where the God of Love Hangs Out; and Lucky Us, a New York Times bestseller.

Her stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Short Stories, The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction, and many other anthologies here and abroad. She has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Vogue, Slate, Tin House, and Salon, among other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award. She is the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing at Wesleyan University.

Photograph courtesy of Elena Seibert.