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Visit youtube to see our complete Author Talks video playlist. Due to author contracts and/or staff availability, not all author talks are recorded.
2018
Laura Schenone, author of "The Dogs of Avalon: The Race to Save Animals in Peril," at Central Library on February 1, 2018.
Tyler Anbinder, author of "City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York," at Central Library on January 18, 2018.
Michael Kazin, author of "War Against War: The American Fight for Peace 1914-1918," at Central Library on Saturday, Jan. 13, 2018
2017
Liza Mundy, author of "Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II," at Central Library on Thursday, Oct, 26, 2017
Paula Tarnpool Whitacre, author of "A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time," at Central Library on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017
More 2017 Authors:
Arlington Reads: Lawrence Block, Grandmaster of Noir
Holocaust Survivor Monique Saigal on "French Heroines: 1940-1945"
Margaret E. Wagner: "America and the Great War"
Glenn Frankel on "High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic"
Arlington Reads: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Arlington Reads: Richard Reeves on "Infamy"
2016 Authors
Shut Up and Write: Writing Effective Plot Twists, with Kelly Fiore Stultz and Lenore Appelhans
Shut Up and Write: Writing Dynamic Character Relationships, with Kate Hattemer and Carmen Rodrigues
2015 Authors
Mark Tooley: "The Peace That Almost Was"
A Conversation with Judy Blume
Shut Up and Write: A Conversation with Jason Reynolds
Shut Up and Write: A Conversation with Dhonielle Clayton
Dr. Alfred O. Taylor: "Bridge Builders of Nauck/Green Valley: Past and Present”
Del Quentin Wilber: "Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan"
Arlington Reads 2015: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Beau Phillips: "I Killed Pink Floyd's Pig"
2014 Authors
YA author Meg Medina, on writing about bullying
Arlington Reads 2014: Ann Patchett
Shut Up and Write: Writing Across Ages
Elizabeth Drew: "Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall"
Charlie Clark: "Arlington County Chronicles"
Brigid Schulte: "Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One has the Time"
Arlington Reads 2014: Richard Ford
Shut Up and Write: Revising Your Work
2013 Authors
Charles Clark: "Swastikas on Wilson: A History of George Lincoln Rockwell in Arlington"
YA Author Tom Ryan's Intro video for TAB
Arlington Reads 2013: Dinaw Mengestu
American Girl Doll Author Valerie Tripp visits Cherrydale
Tyler Cowen: "An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies"
Visit youtube to see our complete Author Talks video playlist or our Arlington Reads video playlist.
Due to author contracts and/or staff availability, not all author events have been recorded.
