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Author Video

Didn't Get to See Your Favorite Author? We've Got Video!

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

Upcoming Author Talks

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"

Beth Macy: "Factory Man"

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"

Shut Up and Write: Barry Lyga

Brigid Schulte: "Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One has the Time"

Arlington Poet Melanie McCabe

Kimberly Palmer: "The Economy of You: Discover Your Inner Entrepreneur and Recession-Proof Your Life"

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

Forrest Pritchard: "Gaining Ground: A Story of Farmers' Markets, Local Food and Saving the Family Farm"

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. 

 

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