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was just cross-country skiing with fact, he even led us most of the way Yaa nodded her head, laughing. Tom, a good friend and a National there. Man, Traverse City people are Surprisingly, we actually Writers Series fan who, in non- nice. So, Tom, this letter is my attempt have more eyes on these “I remember that sparkle in her IPandemic times, has attended a lot to persuade you to Zoom in. eyes that reveals she is truly an virtual events than we of our author events. We were out on artistic genius.” Riley’s Trail near the Vasa single track, First, some history. did with our live events. and coming back, we chose a wrong These virtual events (in which no one turn and got lost. To take my mind As you know, we hosted our last messages coming in. Now we tell can see you) are an excellent option off the waning sun and the prospect live event at the City Opera House authors to keep their phones off for those who have gotten perhaps of humbly calling my husband to in March and switched over to virtual, and their zoom link handy in case a little too comfortable during the let him know I was trying to pick my Zoom events pretty quickly. In April of freezing. pandemic in which dressing up and way home in the dark, I struck up a to be exact, and that first event was putting on make-up feel somehow conversation. a bit of a hot mess, at least in the first Yep, we’ve learned a lot with Zoom. like too much work. Yay! No one five minutes. The author froze up a We know that people don’t like can see you. So relax, sip a glass of “So, Tom, have you been watching nd we had to wait a few minutes looking at the same two faces for a wine (or tea) and enjoy—maybe even any of our virtual author events?” for her to get back “on” while the complete hour, so we fill in with lots of wander off if need be! guest host Rochelle Riley flashed personal photos and video whenever “No, I haven’t,” he said. “I don’t like to her beautiful smile and quickly we can. And we take advantage of the Surprisingly, we actually have more Zoom.” improvised once she realized it was fact that anyone can watch no matter eyes on these virtual events than going to take the author more than where in the world they are. When we did with our live events. A total “Not even one? Why not?” I asked, a few moments to return. author Yaa Gyasi (The Transcendent of 5800 people linked into our maybe a tad bluntly. Kingdom) was zooming in from New 16 virtual events… and we have Once she got back on, all was still York City, for example, her parents thousands of viewers and listeners Before he could respond, a kind not well. The interview was fun and showed up from Huntsville, Alabama. who are watching or listening to the person on a fat-tire bike came across funny, but we kept hearing a random We figured out how to bring them in recordings. Interlochen Public Radio our path and explained how we could beep—I think it might have been the spotlight so everyone could see and other NPR affiliates also get back to the parking lot—and, in someone’s phone calls or maybe them. The guest host asked her mom, re-broadcast our shows. Sophia, if she had a question for Yaa. So, if you’re like Tom, who has been “Yes—when is she coming down avoiding Zoom since the pandemic here? Baby, when are you coming started, I say this: It’s not so bad. In OUR MISSION to Huntsville?” fact, it’s pretty darn entertaining. Good enough that we’re considering Yaa laughed. continuing with our virtual events The National Writers once we’re back at the City Opera “You need to ask the pandemic, I House, hopefully this summer! Series of Traverse City think, but as soon as we can.” Thanks to all of you who have so is a nonprofit Her father Kwaku, a professor of generously donated and allowed us organization dedicated French at the University of Alabama, to continue the conversation! didn’t say a word, but beamed to holding great with pride. conversations with Her former high school teacher Janice today’s best authors Vaughn also made an appearance, saying how proud she was. and building the reading and writing “I remember her sitting in that 11 AP classroom and I remember Yaa ANNE STANTON skills of youth. kicking off her shoes at her desk. Co-founder and Executive Director Do you remember that Yaa?” National Writers Series RAISING WRITERS Honing the skills of young, passionate readers and writers The Writers Series uses proceeds from its author events to help support its several Raising Writers programs

FRONT STREET WRITERS reated in 2012, Front Street CREATIVE WRITING CLASSES Writers is a magnet program for C his year we are teaching youth classes virtually. Coming soon are area high school students passionate about writing. This intensive writers’ Tclasses on writing children’s books and pitching a magazing article. workshop is taught at the Career- We’re also offering a first-ever international cooking class for young children Tech Center, drawing students from a) because it’s fun and useful and b) because it will help strengthen reading the five-county area. and math skills along with enhancing knowledge of world cultures. See our website for more information. Authors Bob Giles, Christopher Haugh and Jordan Blashek virtually visited the classroom this past fall. This spring, Chasten Buttigieg, Karla published in the annual NWS Cornejo Villavicencio, Kate Walbert Literary Journal. FSW students and children’s author Shelley Pearsall have won dozens of awards are planning Zoom visits. from Scholastic, Poets Out Loud, Poets’ Night Out, and the Young The FSW students’ best work is Playwrights Festival.

COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS n partnership with the Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation, NWS has awarded 34 students with $52,000 in scholarship money. There Iare four $1,000 scholarships available: journalism, creative nonfiction, Book Handout Day at Horizon Books. A dedicated group of volunteers coordinated the curbside book handout to each team's coach. short story and playwrighting. All students with permanent addresses in Antrim, Benzie, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska and Leelanau counties are eligible. BATTLE OF THE BOOKS Deadline for submissions is March 1st. For more information go to the NWS uess what? When kids are excited about or GTRCF websites. reading, they read more, and Battle of Gthe Books Grand Traverse is proof. Launched in 2016, Battle of the Books is a free, book- based competition. Dozens of teams read books provided by NWS and then compete before judges to show what they know. This program has become wildly popular, filling up last year with 280 students in a matter of hours.

This year, Battle of the Books has gone virtual, and we have increased the CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2020 SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS number of teams from 48 to 63 teams and 355 students. It’s a huge endeavor, ERIN EVANS OLIVIA ATHENA MCKENNA made possible with a partnership with the Traverse Area District Library, dedicated Senior - Bellaire JOHNSON GILLESPIE LANDRUM volunteers, and the leadership of program coordinator Marcy Lindberg. High School Senior - Interlochen Senior - St. Francis Junior - Grand Leslie Lee Center for the Arts High School Traverse Academy The championship battle will take place on March 14, with two of the 63 teams Nonfiction Judith Lang Robert & Marcy William R. Award Creative Branski Poetry Montgomery facing off. We are thrilled to have award-winning author Shelley Pearsall as the Writing Award Award Fiction Award featured guest. JANUARY 14, 7PM • VIRTUAL WINTER/SPRING SEASON small part of “the material I’ve hoarded” a trumpet,’ as [Ralph Waldo] Emerson and has arranged them “by feel,” not put it, and bits of scavenged wisdom category. And the book is, he says with from my life as a reader. Yea, for I am an DWIGHT GARNER glee, a bit coarse, with more blasphemy underliner, a destroyer of books, and “An uncommon commonplace than the usual books of quotations. maybe you are, too.’” book from a wide-ranging reader… The book is a rollicking, irreverent, GUEST HOST DOUG STANTON A diverting trove of witty remarks.” amazingly alive selection of unforget- tanton is the ~ Kirkus Reviews table moments from forty years of S#1 New York wide and deep reading. Garner’s Times bestselling wight Garner, Quotations is like no commonplace author of In Da book critic book you’ll ever read. Harm’s Way, with the New York 12 Strong and Times, is sharing Garner is an editor for the New The Odyssey of Echo other writers’ York Times Book Review. His essays Company. His writing has appeared words in his new and criticism have appeared in The in Esquire, The New York Times, book, “Garner’s New Republic, Harper’s, Slate and TIME, the Washington Post, and other Quotations: A elsewhere. He is a founding editor national publications where he has Modern Miscellany.” of Salon. been a contributing editor. Stanton conversations,” he writes in the attended Interlochen Arts Academy, While still a student at Middlebury Garner is a no-holds barred quote foreword. “Lines that made me sit up Hampshire College, and received College, Garner wrote book criticism collector, looking for the zing and in my seat; lines that jolted me awake. an MFA from the Writers’ Workshop for The Village Voice, music and theater sting. Like this one… About once a year, I’ll say something at the University of Iowa. An NWS criticism and was a stringer for the “I have no enemies. But my friends I think is worthy of inclusion. I mostly co-founder, he lives in Traverse City, New York Times. He also is the author don’t like me.” ~ Poet Philip Larkin end up deleting those entries.” his hometown. He calls this new collection selections of Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements. He from his “commonplace book.” “It’s He’s admittedly not usually a big fan of GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY began keeping his commonplace book where I write down favorite sentences books of quotations, but says Garner’s Event Underwriter: while still in high school. “Into it I’ve from novels, stories, poems and songs, Quotations “is an attempt to break with A Generous Friend of NWS from plays and movies, from overheard the convention.” He has included just a poured verbal delicacies, ‘the blast of

JANUARY 21, 7PM • VIRTUAL WINTER/SPRING SEASON view the world. GUEST HOST KALYANEE MAM prooted by Three Flames, Lightman’s first work Uwar from ALAN LIGHTMAN of fiction in seven years, portrays her homeland in Cambodia, “Lightman’s best book since the struggles of one Cambodian farming family against the extreme Mam’s longing Einstein’s Dreams . . . an important patriarchal attitudes of their society to "daohsray" ” story of global women’s rights. and a cruel and dictatorial father. The or unravel what ~ Annie Proulx tale is set in a rural community that is home means, has led her to work on slowly being exposed to the modern films about war and refugees, about world and its values. It will be up families threatened and displaced by lan Lightman is to Sreypov, the youngest daughter, the destruction of their land and their Aa novelist, to bravely challenge her father cultures. She is grateful to her mother essayist, physicist, and strive for a better future. Three and her family for teaching her that and educator. Flames is a vivid story of one family’s home lies in the jewels and wisdom Currently, he is yearning for freedom and of a young of our ancestors. She now makes her Professor of the girl’s courage to face down tradition. home on the land of the Pomo and Practice of the Coastal Miwok with her beloved David Humanities at the Three Flames grows directly from Mendez. Massachusetts Institute of Lightman’s work as the founder GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY Technology (MIT). of the Harpswell Foundation, a Literary Sponsors: nonprofit organization whose mission Northwestern Michigan College - As both a distinguished physicist and humanities. He has lectured at more is to advance a new generation of Extended Educational Services; an accomplished novelist, Lightman is than 100 universities nationwide female leaders in Cambodia and all one of only a small number of people about the similarities and differences of Southeast Asia. Red Dirt Road who straddle the sciences and the in the ways that scientists and artists FEBRUARY 4, 7PM • VIRTUAL WINTER/SPRING SEASON RAISING THE LITERARY BAR SINCE 2010 MARTHA TEICHNER “ • NWS broadcasts author events .. [A]n exquisite tale about on IPR, Community Access heartbreak and healing. ” Television, YouTube, and makes them available to public radio ~ Jeannette Walls, bestselling stations around the country. The author of The Glass Castle NWS virtual events are all available on our website raverse City native • More than 69,000 people have Martha Teichner, T attended 181 events since now a correspondent we started. Traverse Heights poetry workshop for “CBS Sunday Morning,” brings her • Awarded $52,000 in scholar- heartwarming book, ships to 34 collegebound When Harry Met Minnie, students. to the National Writers • We’ve hosted more than 180 Series Feb. 4. authors for onstage conversations over the past 10 years. A chance encounter at the Union Square Farmer’s Market changed Emmy Awards and five James Beard • Our Front Street Writers Teichner’s world forever. As fate would program, in partnership with Foundation Awards. Teichner was have it, her friend knew someone dying Traverse Bay Area ISD and held also part of the team coverage of Bestselling author Marie Benedict meets with from the fall-out radiation of 9/11 and at the Career-Tech Center, draws the Newtown, Conn., elementary students from a five-county area FSW students was desperate to find a new home for school shooting which earned CBS who love to learn about writing. Harry, a bull terrier — the same breed News a 2014 duPont-Columbia as Teichner’s dear Minnie. Would Award. Teichner was born in Traverse • Sixty-three teams are engaged Teichner consider giving Harry a loving in a creative and fun Battle of City and graduated from Wellesley new home? the Books this year. This year College in 1969 with a bachelor’s 355 students will be quizzed on In short order, boy dog meets girl dog. degree in economics. She attended nine books. But there is so much more to this book. the University of Chicago’s Graduate • Each spring, we’ve hosted After Teichner agrees to meet Harry School of Business Administration. She lives in New York City. poetry workshops at Traverse and his owner Carol, what begins as a Heights and Blair Elementary transaction involving a dog becomes GUEST HOST CYNTHIA CANTY schools. This year, the poetry a deep and meaningful friendship workshops will be held anty was the between two women with complicated virtually and offered to all area Battle of the Books 2020 team finalist host of lives and a love of bull terriers in C students. Stateside on common. Through the heartbreak Michigan Radio • NWS creates and promotes and grief of Carol’s illness, the bond since the show youth creative writing that develops changes Teichner’s life, began in 2012, classes in partnership with Carol’s life, Minnie’s life, Harry’s life; it Northwestern Michigan College. retiring in 2019. A lifelong resident changes Carol’s death as well. of metro Detroit, she has been a • Publishes studentwritingof In this touching narrative, Teichner television news anchor, producer Front Street Writers,Blair considers the ways our stories are and reporter. Her reporting and and Traverse Heights poetry workshops, and NMC creative shaped by the people we meet, and the writing have earned her many awards, including an Emmy and honors writing classes in the annual profound love we can find by opening NWS Literary Journal. our hearts to unexpected encounters. from the Michigan Association of Broadcasters, the Associated Press and • Co-founder Doug Stanton is the Martha Teichner has been a correspon- the Detroit Press Club. 2020 Stephen E. Ambrose Oral Margaret Atwood signing books after her 2019 dent for “CBS Sunday Morning” History Award winner and past author event since December 1993. Since joining Michiganian of the Year. GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY CBS News in 1977, Teichner has Event Underwriters: earned multiple national awards for • Traverse City has been a “Book City” since 2015. Al & Susan Cogswell her original reporting, including 11 FEBRUARY 25, 7PM • VIRTUAL WINTER/SPRING SEASON dying. The book presents the fervent Washington, D.C. In 2014, President arguments — both for and against — Barack Obama presented Rehm with that are propelling the current debates the National Humanities Medal. She DIANE REHM across the nation about whether to lives in Washington, D.C. “A book of candor and compassion, adopt laws allowing those who are dying to put an end to their suffering. GUEST HOST CYNTHIA CANTY addressing the cause of the Right-to-Die With characteristic even-handedness, anty was the host movement, of which she is one of our Rehm skillfully shows both sides of the Cof Stateside on most inspiring champions.” argument, providing the full context for Michigan Radio ~ Amazon Books this highly divisive issue. since the show began in 2012, With a highly personal foreword retiring in 2019. or many years by John Grisham, When My Time A lifelong resident of metro Detroit, esteemed radio F Comes is a response to many miscon- she has been a television news anchor, host and author Diane ceptions of end-of-life care; it is a call producer and reporter. Her reporting Rehm has been a to action — and to conscience — and it and writing have earned her many fierce advocate for is an attempt to heal and soothe our awards, including an Emmy and honors physician aid in dying. hearts, reminding us that death, too, is from the Michigan Association of Now, in her book, an integral part of life. Broadcasters, the Associated Press and When My Time Comes, the Detroit Press Club. just out in paperback, Rehm Rehm hosted The Diane Rehm Show, addresses one of the toughest subjects distributed by NPR, from 1979 to GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY for families to talk about — death. talks with clergy, lawmakers, doctors 2016, when it had a weekly listening Event Sponsor: and close friends about their views on audience of 2.5 million. She now A Generous Friend of NWS Through personal stories about her legalizing life ending medicines. hosts a weekly podcast for NPR, On mother’s death and her late husband’s Event Underwriter: My Mind. She began her radio career Debbie Edson battle with Parkinson’s Disease, Rehm Rehm gives voice to a broad range in 1973 as a volunteer for WAMU examines patient autonomy, personal of people who are personally linked Literary Sponsor: 88.5, the NPR member station in choice and physician aid in dying. She to the realities of medical aid in Mission Point Press

taken of a young boy. Alone at recess, and The Seventh Most Important MARCH 14, 2PM • BATTLE OF THE BOOKS CHAMPIONSHIP he was lying on the playground in the Thing were named American Library middle of a large picture that he’d Association Notable Books. Her newest SHELLEY PEARSALL drawn in the dirt. novel is Things Seen From Above (February 2020). Shelley’s books have “Readers will think about this novel Shelley Pearsall is the author of seven appeared on numerous state reading after they’ve closed the book. It’s full acclaimed books for middle grade award lists and received other honors. of heart … encourages looking at the and teen readers. Her inspiring and world through a new lens.” thought-provoking novels are used We are thrilled to have award-winning ~ School Library Journal in classrooms nationwide, and she author Shelley Pearsall as the featured is a popular school speaker. Prior to guest of Battle of the Books. becoming a full-time author, Shelley pril is desperately was a classroom teacher. She has also looking for an GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY A worked in the education departments escape from all the of several parks and history museums eFulfillment Service gossip and drama where she created museum theater Hagerty Insurance of the sixth grade events and led public programs. Lead Star lunch hour, so she She has a B.A. from The College of Rollin M. Gerstacker Foundation signs up to be a Wooster and a Master's in Education, Hazelnut Kids Buddy Bench monitor M. Ed., from John Carroll University. for the fourth grade recess. Robert & Anne Tucker Rotary Charities through the dirt. What is the purpose of Joey Byrd is a fourth grade outcast Shelley’s first book, Trouble Don’t Last, the mysterious lines he’s drawing? Are Sera & Rick Thompson who just wants to be left alone. He's a was published in 2002 and received they really as random as they seem? boy on the fringes, who wanders the the prestigious Scott O’Dell Award IN PARTNERSHIP WITH TRAVERSE AREA DISTRICT LIBRARY playground alone, dragging his feet Pearsall based her tale on a photo for Historical Fiction. All of the Above MARCH 19, 7PM • VIRTUAL WINTER/SPRING SEASON Kudos to the National Writers Series IMBOLO MBUE “The Stantons and everyone else behind the National “The unforgettable story of a Writers Series have done something miraculous in community on the wrong end of Traverse City: They have created an event with more Western greed… a masterful novel community support, more local media, more pure by a spellbinding writer.” excitement than in any other event I’ve ever seen. ~ David Eberschoff, author of The Danish Girl Believe me, I’ve done more events than I can count – big and small, literally all over the world – but if I could only do one more for the rest of my life, it would be the National Writers Series.” mbolo Mbue is the ~ STEVE HAMILTON, award-winning author Iauthor of the New York Times bestseller Behold the Dreamers, LOOKING BACK - SOME AMAZING MOMENTS which won the PEN/ Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Blue Metropolis Words to Change Prize and was an Oprah’s Book Club selection. Named a notable book of the year by The New of a girl named Thula who grows York Times and The Washington Post up to become a revolutionary, How and a best book of the year by close Beautiful We Were is a masterful to a dozen publications, the novel has exploration of what happens when Elizabeth Strout: 2017 Janet Evanovitch & Doug Stanton: 2012 been translated into eleven languages, the reckless drive for profit, coupled adapted into an opera and a stage play, with the ghost of colonialism, and optioned for a movie. A native comes up against one community’s of Limbe, Cameroon, and a graduate determination to hold on to its of Rutgers and Columbia Universities, ancestral land and a young woman’s Mbue lives in New York City. willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people’s freedom. “We should have known the end was near.” So begins Imbolo Mbue’s powerful second novel, How Beautiful GUEST HOST ROCHELLE RILEY We Were. Set in the fictional African ochelle Riley is the Doug & Anne Stanton: 2018 Anne Patchett: 2016 Tom Brokaw: 2010 village of Kosawa, it tells of a people Rdirector of Arts living in fear amid environmental and Culture for degradation wrought by an American the city of Detroit. oil company. Pipeline spills have She is a former rendered farmlands infertile. Children award-winning are dying from drinking toxic water. columnist for the Promises of cleanup and financial Detroit Free Press. She’s written two reparations to the villagers are books and tours the country with The made—and ignored. The country’s Burden, speaking about the burden government, led by a brazen dictator, that America bears because it refuses Mary Karr: 2010 John Bacon speaks to TC Central High School students: 2015 exists to serve its own interests. to deal with the aftermath of slavery. Left with few choices, the people of She’s bringing her latest book, That Kosawa decide to fight back. Their They Lived, to the National Writers struggle will last for decades and Series May 13. come at a steep price. GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY Told from the perspective of a Literary Sponsor: generation of children and the family Michigan Writers Karl Marlantes: 2019 Alice Walker: 2018 WE WILL BE BACK! APRIL 8, 7PM • VIRTUAL WINTER/SPRING SEASON and personal memoir, Cornejo borough of Queens. She graduated Villavicencio travels the country at from Harvard in 2011 and believes the risk of arrest and deportation she is one of the first undocumented KARLA CORNEJO to tell of the interior, hidden lives of immigrants to do so. She is a PhD undocumented immigrants in the candidate in the American Studies VILLAVICENCIO United States. Looking well beyond program at Yale. She was an “Memorable… compelling… heart- the flashpoints of the border or the Emerson Collective fellow. Cornejo wrenching… a welcome addition to activism of the Dreamers, Cornejo Villavicencio's book is now a National the literature on immigration told by Villavicencio explores the lives of the Book Award finalist. an author who understands the issue undocumented as rarely seen in our daily headlines. like few others.” GUEST HOST MYRIAM GURBA ~ Kirkus Reviews is the editor-in- Karla Cornejo Villavicencio has written chief of Tasteful about immigration, music, beauty, Rude, a Brick arla Cornejo and mental illness for The New York House Collective Villavicencio Times, The Atlantic, The New Republic, K publication. She brings to light Glamour, Elle, Vogue, n+1, and The is also the author remarkable New Inquiry, among others. She lives of the memoir Mean, stories of hope in New Haven with her partner and a New York Times editors’ choice. O, and resilience in their dog. her searing debut, the Oprah Magazine, ranked Mean as one of the best LGBTQ books of all The Undocumented Cornejo Villavicencio was born in time and Publishers’ Weekly describes Americans. her friends in the sad, “pull yourself 1989 in Ecuador, When she was Gurba as having a voice like no other. up by the bootstraps” memoirs that 18 months old, her parents left her Cornejo Villavicencio has read a vast permeated much of the existing behind when they immigrated to the GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY amount of books about immigrant life literature. US. When she was four or five, her Event Underwriter: in America and has hated almost all parents brought her to the United Debbie Edson of them. She could not see herself or Using a combination of reporting States; they lived in the New York

APRIL 22, 7PM • VIRTUAL WINTER/SPRING SEASON first divorce filed in North America on trained to ask questions, follows grounds of domestic violence. a path that leads her home to the very hospital where they met. It is in CHRIS BOHJALIAN As a harsh winter descends and mass development for a TV series. hysteria sweeps the New England Hour of the Witch, “ a horror-inflected coastline, Mary must race against the His books have been chosen as Best thriller by Chris Bohjalian. . .[is] a clock to convince a suspicious town Books of the Year by the Washington ‘cry against the paternalistic culture ruled by the Puritanical fist of the Post, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the and the persecution of outsiders’—in Church to save her from her husband, Hartford Courant, the Milwaukee other words, very 2020.” or, more pressingly, the noose. Journal-Sentinel, Publishers Weekly, ~ Publishers Weekly Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, It’s a timely historical novel about Bookpage, and Salon. love, fear, feminine power, and the distrust of those in positions Chris graduated from Amherst hris Bohjailian is of power. And, because it is Chris College. He lives in Vermont with Con a roll. He’s Bohjalian, the book wouldn’t be his wife, the photographer Victoria the bestselling complete without an audacious, Blewer. author of The high-stakes twist at the end. Flight Attendant, the hit HBO Max Bohjalian is the #1 New York Times series and his fifth bestselling author of 21 books. His GUEST HOST TO BE ANNOUNCED book adapted to the most recent novel (just released), The screen. And he isn’t slowing down. On is the twisting story of a young Puritan Red Lotus, is a twisting story of love April 22, he’ll Zoom in to talk about his wife Mary Deerfield, who petitions for and deceit that debuted as a national GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY new historic thriller, Hour of the Witch. divorce from her cruel and abusive bestseller. An American man vanishes Literary Sponsor: husband—only to end up on trial for on a rural road in Vietnam and his A Generous Friend of NWS Set in 17th century New England, this witchcraft. His tale is inspired by the girlfriend, an emergency room doctor MAY 13, 7PM • VIRTUAL WINTER/SPRING SEASON dirty laundry to raise enough money African Americans and the Enduring for college. Readers will also learn Impact of Slavery. about famed musician Duke Ellington, ROCHELLE RILEY who at the age of seven years old GUEST HOST LEONARD PITTS, JR. preferred (like many kids) playing Leonard Pitts, Jr. is “The moment my son begins to read, baseball to attending piano lessons. I will give him this fascinating book.” a Pulitzer Prize- winning syndicated ~ Qasim Basir, filmmaker The book also features charming black- columnist and the and-white photos of children dressed author of several in the likeness of each story’s famous books, including subject, so children can learn they can the popular novels very famous be anything they aspire to be and that Freeman, Before I Forget and The Last person was every famous person was once a child E Thing You Surrender. His other honors once a child who, in some cases, overcame great include: five National Headliner Awards who, in some obstacles to achieve success. cases, overcame from the Atlantic City Press Club; the great obstacles Written for young readers, this is a President’s Award and Journalist of the Year Awards from the National Associa- to achieve success. Cassius Clay. What did the police book that will also charm and inspire tion of Black Journalists and six Green That’s the enduring lesson of That They officer who took the theft report their parents. Eyeshade Awards from the Society of Lived, which features the biographies suggest he do before catching up with Professional Journalists. He was born in and photographs of famous African the thief? Learn how to fight. And thus, Rochelle Riley is Director of Arts and Orange, Calif. and lives with his wife in Americans, starting with the stories of a life – and the world – was changed. Culture for the City of Detroit. She their youth and how small experiences spent nearly 25 years as an award- the suburbs of Washington, DC. can help shape their entire lives. Other stories featured in That winning Detroit Free Press columnist GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY For example: Muhammad Ali’s bike They Lived include Bessie Coleman, the before leaving in 2019 to serve the Event Underwriter: was stolen when he was just a twelve- first African American female aviator, City. She is also the author of four year-old kid in Louisville named collected and washed her neighbors’ other books, including The Burden: Anne Montgomery

touches off a violent, turbulent reaction MAY 26, 7PM • VIRTUAL WINTER/SPRING SEASON GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY that feels startlingly relevant to today. Literary Underwriters: MARY DORIA Widely praised for her meticulous Lorraine Beers research, fine prose, and compelling For all my Scandinavian ancestors, RUSSELL narrative drive, Mary Doria Russell is the Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish and “Historical fiction that feels New York Times bestselling and award- Danish, this one’s for you. winning author of The Sparrow, Children uncomfortably relevant today.” Barbara Stark-Nemon ~ Kirkus Reviews of God, A Thread of Grace, Dreamers of the Day, Doc, and Epitaph. Dr. Russell holds a PhD in biological anthropology. Kudos to NWS n inspiring She lives in Lyndhurst, Ohio. “The National Writers historical A Series is one of the novel about GUEST HOST KENDRA CARR classiest and most Kendra Carr joined “America’s Joan smoothly run author IPR as the All Things of Arc.” In The event programs Considered host in Women of the around. The venue 2019. She previously Copper Country is stunning, the audience worked at WMOM you will meet Annie intelligent and primed to enjoy in Ludington as the Clements, the courageous woman themselves, and the interviews News Director. always keen and insightful. Add who started a rebellion by leading to that the TLC and consummate a strike against the largest copper She grew up in western Michigan. A professionalism Doug Stanton and mining company in the world. graduate of Cottey College, she went lives for meager salaries while their his incredible team provide, and on to receive her bachelor's degree beautiful Traverse City as a location, At the age of 25, Annie had seen wives cleaned the houses of the elite, from Western Michigan University. and you have a winner! I hope to be dreading the fateful news of a deadly enough of the world to know that it asked back again and again. ” was unfair. She’d spent her whole life mine accident. When Annie—in July of Kendra is an avid actress, participating ~ Paula McLain, author of The Paris in the copper-mining town of Calumet, 1913—decides to stand up for herself in everything from Shakespeare to Wife and Circling the Sun Michigan, where men risked their and the entire town of Calumet, she musical theater and beyond. Great writers regularly visit our house. Do they visit yours?

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COULDN’T DO IT WITHOUT YOU Special Thanks to our Gladys & Tom Maguire Sharon & Jerry Knoppow SUSTAINING SPONSOR ARTS BENEFACTOR SPONSOR John & Mary Melvin Susie & Bob Kuras Summer Gala Hosts Anonymous Suzanne & Jim Lamond 2020 Richard & Diana Milock Harold & Pamela Lassers Hosted on Zoom - special Anne Montgomery Leslie Lee Shirley & Dick Murray guest Susan Goldberg; wine Rorie Lewis www.CordiaTC.com Dawn & Kean Oh Val Lincoln provided by Larry Mawby Grant & Paulette Parsons Susan Lio 231-714-6554 Linda & Max Proffitt Laurine Madison 2019 Peter & Chris Romeo Anne Magoun Mission Table Restaurant Paul Schmuckal & Meredith McComb nwmiarts.org with Hosts Terry & Catherine Radu William & Joan McCool Wayne Lobdell Jeanne & Jack Snow Ann McPhail Bonnie Stanton Paula Menees 2018 Vicki Stanton Betsy Moore & Jay Wood GRANTORS MEDIA SPONSORS Olivia & Marty Lagina Sera & Rick Thompson Benson & Bette Munger Robert & Anne Tucker David Murphy & 2017 Kent & Nancy Walton Suzanne Peters Dana & Casey Cowell Janet Wolf Kevin Nagy & Debbie Lewis Susan Nehra 2016 PULITZER CAN-DEMIC Alan Newton Brenda & Ross Biederman DONORS Mary Oosterhouse Susie & Bill Janis $250 - $999 Robert & Diane Parsons Charlene Abernethy Susie & Bob Kuras Cheri Pero Keith & Carol Adler Michael Rodenberg This activity is supported in part by an award from Diana & Richard Milock Robert & Betty Adler Bruce & Joyce Rogers the MICHIGAN COUNCIL FOR ARTS AND CULTURAL David & Jacqueline Amos Pug Rundio 2015 Gary & Mimi Appel AFFAIRS, MICHIGAN HUMANITIES COUNCIL and the Bill & Madelyn Ryan Anne & Robert Tucker Paul & Judy Arnold Christine Schneider NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS. Dennis & Anne Arouca Patricia Schroth Alison Arthur Marc & Tracy Schwimmer SUSTAINING Jeanne Ascione Jack Segal & DONOR - FRONT STREET Barbara & Joseph Backus Karen Puschel Segal WRITERS Stephen Bahlke Patricia Sharpnack SUPPORTING SPONSORS $15,000 Thomas Barnes Anne Marie & Dawn & Kean Oh Ross & Brenda Biederman William Shuyler Eric Blackhurst Winnie Simpson FOUNDERS CIRCLE Alfred Bonney Alton & Kathy Smith $10,000/year for 3 years David & Rota Bump Bill Smith & Donna Weitz Brenda & Ross Biederman Linda Butka & Bryan Olshove Bonnie Smith Aubrey Adelle Bliss Bruce & Mary Byl Gretchen & Bill Soutear Rota & David Bump Susan & Charles Cady Doug & Anne Stanton Dana & Casey Cowell Dick & Sue Campbell Kathleen Steeves Cameron & Dan Farley Martha Campbell David & Karin Summers AIRPORT SPONSOR Susie & Bill Janis Jennifer & Stan Carroll Louise Taylor Diana & Richard Milock Mike & Maria Carroll Roberta Teahen Jon & Marissa Wege Luba Childs June Thaden Elsa Clark Stephen Tomlinson EVENT & LITERARY SPONSORS Gifts Donated in the Camille Colatosti Mary Kay Trippe Last Twelve Months Jeanne Corey & Dennis & Kathy Turner to January 4, 2021 Paul Vezina Judy & Michael Twigg James & Margaret Costello Catherine Upjohn DWIGHT GARNER ALAN LIGHTMAN MARTHA TEICHNER BESTSELLER LIST Saundra & Jack Crandall Jill Vollbrecht $5,000 - $10,000 Elodie Crawford William & Toni Wagoner Event Underwriter: Literary Sponsors: Event Underwriters: Begonia Charitable Fndn. Marcia Curran Patricia & Ken Warner Daniel Edson Rebecca D'Agostino & Juanita & Noel Watson Debra Edson A GENEROUS FRIEND AL & SUSAN David Faling Larry & Patricia Widmayer Cameron & Dan Farley Barbara Dancer Joan Williams OF NWS COGSWELL Jon & Sue Kinne Nancy & William Davy Karen & Jack Williams NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Chris Dennos Betsy & Richard Wilson $1,000 - $4,999 Mike Dettmer Gary & Jean Wolf Sam Abood Dan & Lindy Dingeman Colleen & Mick Zanotti Laura Asiala Gail Drayton Lorraine & Mack Beers Nancy Duke QUILL DONORS DIANE REHM IMBOLO MBUE KARLA CORNEJO Arleta Bernson Bob Eichenlaub & $101 - $249 VILLAVICENCIO Richard & Susan Bingham Becky Ewing Joanie Abbott Bob & Marcy Branski Deb & Neal Fellows Nathanael Adamson Event Sponsor: Event Sponsor: Clark & Karen Bunting Mike & Mary Forness Peter & Bernadette Albers Event Underwriter: Leith & Gloria Butler Dina Foster Catherine Anthony A GENEROUS FRIEND DEBBIE EDSON Tom & Pam Caldwell Anonymous Gregg Armstrong Christopher & Jennifer Gerling OF NWS Bob & Suzy Cline Sharon Bacon Susan & Al Cogswell Kathleen Glynn Ellen & Thomas Baird Bill & Paula Cordes Grand Traverse Pie Company Marilyn & Walter Baird Event Underwriter: Thom & Becky Darga Pat Green Karen Baker DEBBIE EDSON ROCHELLE RILEY CHRIS BOHJALIAN Michael & Brenda Earl Jerrold Gretzinger & Diana & Jeff Baribeau Renee & Don Fedrigon Meg Staley Pat Bazley Event Underwriter: Event Underwriter: Anonymous Kim Hagerty & Carl Benner Steve & Ann Fisher Antonio Simao Marc Bertrand Literary Sponsor: ANNE MONTGOMERY A GENEROUS FRIEND OF NWS Phyllis Foster Elizabeth Hakola Jennifer Bonifacio Bob & Nancy Giles Sondra Hardy Judith Bosma Ward & Mary Gillett Jeanne & Michael Haynes Julie Botsford SHELLEY PEARSALL Carol & Bob Goff Thomas Hazelton & Trish Brauninger Brad Graft Cynthia Brzak Eric & Julia Braverman BATTLE OF THE BOOKS Gail & Robert Hetler Joyce Hennessee Paul & Amanda Brink Chip & Shirley Hoagland Marie & Doug Holem Kathy & Hans Bruehl Event Sponsors: James & Diana Huckle Pam & Steve Horne Connie Bruski MARY DORIA RUSSELL Jennifer & Brian Jaffe Michele Howard Gerilyn Burden Bill & Susie Janis Lola Jackson & Dilys Susan Buxton Angie Judge Tosteson Garcia Susan Cahn Literary Underwriters: Jamie & Paula Kemler Michael & Joanie Jackson Rita Cheyne Paul & Carol Laporte Jill & Jerome Jelinek Valerie Church-McHugh LORRAINE BEERS Wayne & Terry Lobdell Ed & Ann Kalat Bob & Cindy Clement ANNE & ROBERT TUCKER Janice & Michael London George Kleiber & Dan & Linda Cline BARBARA STARK-NEMON Kathy Magliochetti Diane Dabich Marilyn Cobb SERA & RICHARD THOMPSON THANK YOU! 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