People never tire of reading about icons, an agent once told author Lew Paper. Paper’s latest book took that adage one better: People never tire of reading about colorful icons.
The three intimate talks and book signings in October, November and April are a chance to meet the authors while helping the nonprofit Friends group raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for Collier County’s public libraries.
Big changes are afoot with the author spotlight series, which expands to three events headlined by best-selling writers and hosted by the Friends of the Library of Collier County.
Jamie Ford, author of such best-sellers as “The Many Daughters of Afong Moy” and “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet,” will speak in the Nick Linn Series for the Friends of the Library of Collier County in Naples on March 10.
It takes a historian of Erik Larson’s skill to walk us through those fraught days, in his latest work of nonfiction, “The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War.”
Hailing from the icy north woods of Minnesota, William Kent Krueger has built a reputation for delivering warm, compassionate prose, whether in his best-selling Cork O’Connor crime series or his beloved stand-alone novels.
Download the full article to read the Fort Myers News and learn more about the next speaker in the 2025 Nonfiction Author Series: Elizabeth B. White.
Download the full article to read the Naples Daily News and learn more about the next speaker in the 2025 Nonfiction Author Series: Elizabeth B. White.
The Nonfiction Author Series returns this winter with four rousing real-life adventures
The end of 2024 bids us recall those important to this community who have gone before us. We remember these Naples and Collier County residents, and hope to perpetuate the good they did.
