John McCutcheon

Saturday, March 20, 2010

7:00 p.m. - Headquarters

Art @ your St. Louis County Library

Enjoy an evening with one of our most respected and loved folksingers, John McCutcheon. McCutcheon is a master of a dozen different traditional instruments, most notably the rare and beautiful hammer dulcimer. Critics and singers around the globe have hailed his songwriting; his 30 recordings have garnered every imaginable honor including seven Grammy nominations.

Event made possible by a grant from the Missouri Arts Council.  
 

Roy Morris

Monday, March 22, 2010

7:00 p.m. - Headquarters

The St. Louis County Library Foundation presents Roy Morris, Jr. Author of “Lighting Out For the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain”

“Lighting Out for the Territory” chronicles Mark Twain’s life-changing early years in the Wild West where he began his writing career and shaped himself into America’s most celebrated author. Roy Morris, Jr. is the author of five previous books on the Civil War era. He is the editor of Military Heritage, the founding editor of America’s Civil War magazine, and a consultant for A&E Network and the History Channel.

Uri Shulevitz

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

7:00 p.m. - Sachs Branch

Reading Garden Event Series

The St. Louis County Library’s Reading Garden Event Series presents Author & Illustrator Uri Shulevitz

Children's author and illustrator Uri Shulevitz will discuss his prolific career and answer questions. Mr. Shulevitz has illustrated over forty books. He won the Caldecott Medal in 1969 for his illustration of "The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship." A book signing will follow the program. Books for signing will be available for purchase from Puddn’head Books

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Timothy Gay

Thursday, March 25, 2010

7:00 p.m. - Headquarters

'Buzz' Westfall Favorite Author Series

Baseball historian Timothy Gay discusses the careers of Satchel Paige, Dizzy Dean, and Bob Feller and how their "barnstorming" exhibition games of the '30s and '40s helped pave the way toward interracial baseball.

Books for signing will be available for purchase from Borders.

Howard Frank Mosher

Monday, March 29, 2010

7:00 p.m. - Headquarters

St. Louis County Library Foundation presents Award-Winning Fiction Writer Howard Frank Mosher Author of “Walking to Gatlinburg”

“A combination of Ernest Hemingway, Henry David Thoreau, and Jim Harrison.”
 --Los Angeles Times

A stunning and lyrical Civil War thriller, acclaimed novelist Howard Frank Mosher’s “Walking to Gatlinburg” is a spellbinding story of survival, wilderness adventure, mystery, and love in the time of war.

Howard Frank Mosher is the author of ten books. His novel “A Stranger in the Kingdom” won the New England Book Award for Fiction and was made into a movie, as were his novels “Disappearance” and “Where the Rivers Flow North.”

Books for signing will be available for purchase from Pudd’nhead Books.

Program sites are accessible. Upon two weeks notice, accommodations will be made for
those persons with disabilities. Call (314) 994-3300.