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Why Stories Still Matter CFA 2020 KICKOFF EVENT CFA 2020 2020 Ruth Ratner Miller Memorial Award KEYNOTE SPEAKER for Excellence in American History Jennifer Haigh ConcordFestivalofAuthors.org Presented to: Friday, October 23, 7PM Jill Lepore Friday, October 16, 7PM PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS: Why Stories Still Matter LIVE online presentation A Mighty Blaze In a time of national crisis — political, medical, with Q&A financial, environmental and moral — storytelling is Sponsored by the Friends of Be Well Be Here more important than ever. Novelist Jennifer Haigh the Concord Free Public Library CFPL Corporation talks about what literature has to teach us, and why it is urgently necessary in these troubled times. Concord Free Public Library Jennifer Haigh is a novelist and short story writer. The Ruth Ratner Miller Memorial Award for The Concord Bookshop Her sixth book, Heat and Light was named a Best Excellence in American History was established Book by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, in 1998, and is sponsored by her four children to Concord Museum The Washington Post, and NPR. She has won the honor the life of their mother, Ruth Ratner Miller, Debra’s Natural Gourmet PEN/Hemingway Award, the Massachusetts Book civic leader, businesswoman, and philanthropist. Award and the PEN New England Award in fiction. Friends of the CFPL She has been awarded fellowships by the National Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House Endowment for the Arts, the James Michener Foun- Jill Lepore is the David Woods dation and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Kemper ’41 Professor of The Robbins House American History at Harvard Thoreau Farm University and is also a staff Introduced by writer at The New Yorker. A two- Thoreau Society Helen Elaine Lee, author of novels The Serpent’s Gift time Pulitzer Prize finalist, her Transcendentalism Council many books include the interna- and Water Marked, and tional bestseller These Truths, Turning Life On Professor of Comparative Media Studies/Writing at and This America. Her latest book The Umbrella Arts Center is IF THEN: How the Simulmatics MIT and Director of MIT’s Corporation Invented the Future. The Walden Woods Project Program in Women’s & Gender Studies. THE CFA 2020 PLANNING TEAM INVITES YOU TO JOIN US ONLINE OCTOBER 16–31, 2020 Louisa May Alcott’s ORCHARD HOUSE SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 16 17 7PM 2PM Calendar of Events KICKOFF EVENT: A History of Slavery 2020 Ruth Ratner in New England Miller Memorial Jared Ross Hardesty October 2020 Award for Presented by the Transcendentalism Council Excellence in of First Parish Church American History Now in its 28th year, the Concord Festival of Authors goes LIVE online presented to: 8PM to celebrate the written and spoken word with a global audience. Dr. Jill Lepore Unboxed A New Play Presented by the by Libby Schap To register for events, please visit ConcordFestivalofAuthors.org Friends of the CFPL Presented by The Umbrella Arts Center @ Home 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 2PM 7PM 5PM 4PM 7PM 7PM 9AM Goodbye, Ice: Applying History to The Boy in the Field CFA Writing Leave It As It Is: KEYNOTE EVENT: Breakfast with Arctic Poems Present Challenges Margot Livesey Workshop: Historical A Journey Through Why Stories Still the Authors Adrienne Brodeur, Presented by the Thoreau Lizabeth Cohen Presented by Fiction Whitney Scharer Theodore Roosevelt’s Matter Society and The Write Presented by the Caroline Leavitt, The Concord Bookshop Presented by Be Well Be Here American Wilderness Jennifer Haigh Connection at Thoreau Farm Concord Museum Marjan Kamali 7PM David Gessner Introduced by author 5PM 7PM Debra’s Natural Presented by The Walden Helen Elaine Lee 4PM from Anti-Racism and Little Women Gourmet: The Little Woods Project Presented by the Young Adult Writers Susan Kaplan Carlton, Reconstruction, Page to Screen Shop That Could Friends of the CFPL Jennifer De Leon, Then and Now Jan Turnquist Presented by Debra’s Marcella Pixley Presented by The Robbins House Presented by Louisa May Natural Gourmet Alcott’s Orchard House 7PM 7:30PM 7:30PM Children’s Authors Writing Workshop The Power of Agency Rajani LaRocca, Susan Tan for Democracy Dr. Anthony Rao Presented by Be Well Be Here Presented by Turning Life On Presented by the CFPL Friends 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 3PM 5PM 7PM 4PM 7PM 7PM 7PM Language for a New Writing about JFK: Coming of CFA Writing What Makes a Good LGBTQ Memoir MYSTERY NIGHT Century: Contemporary Coronavirus Age in the American Workshop: Short Story Writing Group? Authors Casting Call: Poetry from the Middle Dr. Robin Schoenthaler Century, 1917–1956 Ron Maclean The Chunky Monkeys Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, How We Find East, Asia and Beyond Presented by the Presented by Be Well Be Here Fred Logevall Share Tips Michelle Bowdler Our Characters Presented by the Friends of the CFPL Presented by the 7PM Christopher Castellani, Presented by the Emcee Kate Flora Friends of the CFPL 7PM Concord Museum 20th Annual Mass Chip Cheek, Celeste Ng, Friends of the CFPL Presented by the 7PM Debut Authors Book Award Whitney Scharer, Friends of the CFPL Civil War Legacies Rachel Barenbaum Presented by the Concord Grace Talusan and others John Matteson Presented by A Mighty Free Public Library and the Presented by the Presented by Louisa May Blaze and the Friends of Massachusetts Center for Friends of the CFPL Alcott’s Orchard House the CFPL the Book.
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