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Main Event: Many Voices With Victoria Christopher Murray
New Presenter: Co-author of "The First Ladies"
2023-09-25 18:30:00
2023-09-25 20:00:00
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Main Event: Many Voices With Victoria Christopher Murray
The Main Event: Many Voices series returns with four captivating speakers. Victoria Christopher Murray, NAACP and Library Journal award-winning author, kicks off this year's series.
Main Library - Auditorium
Monday, September 25
6:30pm - 8:00pm
Main Library
AuditoriumThe Main Event: Many Voices series returns with four captivating speakers. Victoria Christopher Murray, NAACP and Library Journal award-winning author, kicks off this year's series.
Join us as Victoria Christopher Murray shares her newest title, "The First Ladies," co-authored with Marie Benedict.
Acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray has more than one million books in print. She has written more than twenty novels, including "Stand Your Ground," a NAACP Image Award Winner for Outstanding Fiction and a Library Journal Best Book of the Year.
In 2021, she teamed up with NYT Bestselling author Marie Benedict, to co-author "The Personal Librarian," the remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian — who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true. In a new collaboration, Victoria Christopher Murray and Marie Benedict have co-authored their latest novel, "The First Ladies."
A native of Queens, Victoria earned a B.A. in Communication Disorders from Hampton University and an M.B.A. from New York University's Stern School of Business.
If you wish to purchase a Main Event: Many Voices speaker's recently released title during their event, you will find The Friends of Main Library located in the Atrium before and after each event. Author book signing will follow each event located in the hallway beside the
auditorium.
Titles available for purchase courtesy of the Friends of Main Library:
September 25: "The First Ladies" by Victoria Christopher Murray and Marie Benedict
October 23: "The Beginning Was the End: Devo in Ohio," new edition by David Giffels and Jade Dellinger
November 6: "Wednesday's Child" by Yiyun Li
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served. Auditorium doors will open at 6 pm for early seating. If you have any questions, please contact the Culture & AV Division by phone at 330.643.9015 or email at cadiv@akronlibrary.org.
AGE GROUP: | Tween | Teen | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Special Events | Music | Education | Community Event | Books & Writing |
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