The Thurber House | Evenings with Authors

FALL 2008

All Evenings with Authors events begin at 7:30 p.m. The featured guest reads from his or her most recent work, chats about writing, and then there is a question-and-answer session with the audience. Each event closes with a coffee and cookies reception and an opportunity to buy the author's book(s) and get them signed. Tickets are $18 in advance, $20 at the door, with discounts for students and seniors. To purchase tickets, call Thurber House at 614-464-1032 or click here to purchase online.

Please note the changes to the schedule:
** The event featuring Michael Connelly is sold out. To be placed on the wait list, please call 614-464-1032 ext. 11.
**Louis Bayard has been rescheduled for Thurs., Nov. 20.
**Stewart O'Nan has moved to the Columbus Performing Arts Center, 549 Franklin Ave.

© Gary Wells
Celia Rivenbark
Mon., Aug. 25; Columbus Performing Arts Center, 549 Franklin Ave.
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“Think Dave Barry with a female point-of-view!”
—USA Today

Celia Rivenbark is an award-winning newspaper columnist and freelance journalist. She has won national and state press awards and is the author of four humor collections including the Thurber Humor Prize semi-finalist,We’re Just Like You, Only Prettier, and Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank. She will read from her latest, Belle Weather: Mostly Sunny With a Chance of Scattered Hissy Fits. In this newest collection of laugh-out-loud essays, you’ll experience: The Joys of Remodeling Tara, Why French Women Suck at Competitive Eating, Britney’s To-Do List, and many, many more. She lives in North Carolina. For more information, visit her website at: www.celiarivenbark.com.

©Michael Cogliantry
A.J. Jacobs
Tues., Sept. 9; Columbus Performing Arts Center, 549 Franklin Ave.
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“Both laugh-out-loud funny and enlightening... An entirely absorbing read.”
—People (four stars)

The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible was a coast-to-coast bestseller, staying on The New York Times bestseller list for several weeks, and has now been optioned by Brad Pitt’s production company. This funny, insightful and provocative memoir chronicles A.J. Jacobs’ attempts to follow the Bible for one entire year, on the way making discoveries about himself and the most influential book of all time. Jacobs is an editor at large for Esquire, and is a contributor to The New York Times, New York magazine, and NPR’s Weekend Edition. He lives in New York. For more information, visit his website at: www.ajjacobs.com.

©C Gina Eppolito
Louis Bayard
**Thurs., Nov. 20; Columbus School for Girls, 56 S. Columbia Ave.
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**Due to the loss of power throughout central Ohio, the Evenings with Author event scheduled for Friday, September 19 has been re-scheduled to Thursday, November 20. If you have a ticket, you may use it for that event; or you can get a full refund; or you can also use your ticket for another Evenings with Author event this Fall 2008 season. Please call 464-1032, ext 11 or e-mail: thurberhouse@thurberhouse.org to let us know how you would like to proceed with your ticket, if you have one, or to purchase one.**

“...A writer of remarkable gifts: for language, for imagination, for that mysterious admixture of audacity and craftsmanship that signals a major talent.”
—Joyce Carol Oates
Louis Bayard, the acclaimed author of Mr. Timothy, a New York Times Notable Book, and The Pale Blue Eye, nominated for both the Edgar and Dagger awards, is back with another spellbinding historical mystery about a lost king and a real-life convict who transformed himself into the world’s first modern detective. A riveting thriller of cover-ups and conspiracies, The Black Tower is set in Paris in 1818, and follows the brilliant man known as Vidocq - former criminal and father of modern forensic detection - who is close to unveiling a tantalizing secret: the fate of Louis-Charles, the lost son of Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI. A contributing writer and book reviewer, Bayard has written for The New York Times, Washington Post, and Salon.com. He lives in Washington D.C. For more information, visit his website at: www.louisbayard.com.

©Robert Azmitia
Michael Connelly--SOLD OUT To be placed on the wait list, please call 614-464-1032 ext. 11.
Mon., Oct. 20; Columbus Performing Arts Center, 549 Franklin Ave.
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“Connelly is our laureate, proving that popular fiction at its best... is also literature.”
—Los Angeles Times

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the phenomenally successful Harry Bosch series as well as the winner of every major crime award, Michael Connelly is one of, if not the most, popular writers of crime fiction working today. After three years as a crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Connelly decided to try writing fiction. The result was the award-winning, The Black Echo, introducing LAPD Detective Hieronymous Bosch. Connelly’s 16th novel, The Lincoln Lawyer, was his first legal thriller and debuted at #1 on the New York Times list. The book introduced Mickey Haller, an L.A. defense attorney and half-brother of Bosch. The Brass Verdict is Connelly’s brand new novel, teaming Haller and Bosch as they try to thwart a killer on the loose. The result is a book of riveting suspense featuring two spectacular anti-heroes. Connelly lives in Florida. For more information, visit his website at: www.michaelconnelly.com.

©Trudy O'Nan
Stewart O'Nan
Mon., Nov. 10; ** Columbus Performing Arts Center, 549 Franklin Ave.
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“Anyone who thinks American fiction is dead hasn’t read the work of Stewart O’Nan.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

Stewart O’Nan will read from two novels: his 2007 New York Times “Editor’s Pick”, Last Night at the Lobster, and his brand new work Songs of the Missing, an enthralling account of a family in the aftermath of their daughter’s disappearance. O’Nan’s acclaimed talent for depicting his ordinary heroes with empathy and grace is evident on every page of these two books. O’Nan is the author of several works, one of which, Snow Angel, was made into a film. He has won several literary awards, including The Washington Post’s “Book of the Year” for Last Night at the Lobster. He lives in Connecticut.
**Please note the venue change! If you already purchased tickets, it has the wrong location listed.**

"Those who enjoy reading Erma Bombeck will enjoy this book.”
—Library Journal on “The Mr. and Mrs. Happy Handbook”

Steve Doocy is an Emmy Award-winning broadcaster who has worked in news and entertainment divisions of NBC, CBS, and ABC, and for many years was the Times Square reporter on the legendary Dick Clark’s New Years Rockin’ Eve. He is currently co-host of Fox & Friends on the Fox News Channel. Doocy is also a very successful writer. His first book, The Mr. & Mrs. Happy Handbook, became an instant New York Times bestseller, and was a semi-finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. In his newest book, Tales from the Dad Side: Misadventures in Fatherhood, Doocy regales readers with tales of his own hilarious, sometimes frustrating, and often moving experiences being a father, and shows parents that even during moments of great frustration, they are not alone. He lives outside New York City. For more information on his show Fox & Friends, visit www.foxnews.com.

Special thanks to Barnes & Noble Booksellers, the Westin Columbus, formerly the Great Southern Hotel, and to our media sponsor, WOSU Public Media for their ongoing support of this series. Thanks also to the Greater Columbus Arts Council, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Joey and William Henderson and Florence E.K. Hurd funds of the Columbus Foundation.