Donna Leon

Monday, April 4, 2011 @ 1:00pm
@ Chicago Public Library - Harold Washington Library Center
Apr. 3, 2011
Donna Leon, the international bestselling author of the Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, discusses and signs her new book, Drawing Conclusions. This book explores violence against women and the treatment of the elderly all within the vivid landscape of Venice.

After the Shock: How to Heal and Grow Your Money

Monday, April 4, 2011 @ 7:00am
@ Chicago Public Library - Harold Washington Library Center
Apr. 3, 2011
Gail Marks Jarvis, nationally syndicated financial columnist for the Chicago Tribune, presents what you should know about financial planning in our current times. Planners from the FPA of Illinois provide one-on-one planning sessions following the presentation.

Joyce Carol Oates

Thursday, March 31, 2011 @ 1:30pm
@ Chicago Public Library - Harold Washington Library Center
Mar. 12, 2011
Joyce Carol Oates, recipient of the Chicago Public Library's 2002 Carl Sandburg Literary Award, discusses and signs her recent memoir, A Widow's Story.  Ms.

Regina Taylor and Tanya Saracho: Columbia College Story Week Festival of Writers

Thursday, March 17, 2011 @ 8:00am
@ Chicago Public Library - Harold Washington Library Center
Mar. 12, 2011
From Sunday, March 13, through Friday, March 18, the Columbia College Chicago Fiction Writing Department presents its 15th Annual Story Week Festival of Writers: Class Acts.As it has for the last 15 years, Story Week 2011 will offer six days jam-packed with readings, conversations with auth

Audrey Niffenegger, Gerard Woodward, and Karen Tei Yamashita: Columbia College Story Week Festival of Writers

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 @ 1:00pm
@ Chicago Public Library - Harold Washington Library Center
Mar. 12, 2011
From Sunday, March 13, through Friday, March 18, the Columbia College Chicago Fiction Writing Department presents its15th Annual Story Week Festival of Writers: Class Acts.As it has for the last 15 years, Story Week 2011 will offer six days jam-packed with readings, conversations with autho

Jennifer Egan with Donna Seaman: Columbia College Story Week Festival of Writers

Monday, March 14, 2011 @ 1:00pm
@ Chicago Public Library - Harold Washington Library Center
Mar. 12, 2011
From Sunday, March 13, through Friday, March 18, the Columbia College Chicago Fiction Writing Department presents its 15th Annual Story Week Festival of Writers: Class Acts.As it has for the last 15 years, Story Week 2011 will offer six days jam-packed with readings, conversations with auth

Jennifer Egan and Joe Meno: Columbia College Story Week Festival of Writers

Monday, March 14, 2011 @ 9:30am
@ Chicago Public Library - Harold Washington Library Center
Mar. 12, 2011
From Sunday, March 13, through Friday, March 18, the Columbia College Chicago Fiction Writing Department presents its 15th Annual Story Week Festival of Writers: Class Acts.As it has for the last 15 years, Story Week 2011 will offer six days jam-packed with readings, conversations with auth

Edmund Morris

Tuesday, December 14, 2010 @ 12:00pm
@ Chicago Public Library - Harold Washington Library Center
Dec. 3, 2010
Internationally acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Edmund Morris will discuss and sign his new book, Colonel Roosevelt, the last volume in his monumental trilogy on the great American President Theodore Roosevelt.

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