Benefit for the Durham Literacy Center

Name: Benefit for the Durham Literacy Center
Start: 2018-10-18T19:00:00
End: 2018-10-18T21:00:00
Location: Duke Campus: Rubenstein Library

Oct. 18, 2018 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Duke Campus: Rubenstein Library 411 Chapel Drive, Durham, North Carolina 27708

Oct. 08, 2018

12:20 p.m.

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Therese Anne Fowler

On October 18, the Durham Literacy Center will host its 2nd annual author event with Therese Anne Fowler, whose runaway bestseller, Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, was translated into over 23 languages and turned into a critically acclaimed TV miniseries with Christina Ricci. Therese's follow-up book, A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts, publishes just two days before the literary event and has been hailed as one of the "Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2018" by Publishers Weekly. We're thrilled that she'll have the opportunity to talk about both books with fellow NYT bestselling author, Christina Baker Kline. A book signing will follow the event.This fundraiser brings in much needed funds for the DLC and buying a ticket or two (for yourself or as a gift) is a tremendous way to help show your support. Tickets to the literary event are $30 each. If you'd like to give more, $100 will get you a ticket to the VIP reception, which includes a free copy of A Well-Behaved Woman and an opportunity to meet Therese Anne Fowler in person.

Therese Anne Fowler explores another mesmerizing chapter in the lives of powerful, independent American women in her new book A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts. Following the national success of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, which was set largely in the 1920s, Fowler sets her sights on an earlier gilded age: late-nineteenth-century New York City, where Alva Smith’s extravagant ball christened her and her husband’s new chateau on Fifth Avenue, ushering the Vanderbilts into heights of society where wealth alone could not grant them access. Fowler’s keen biographical insight and research are on display, rediscovering a woman common history regards merely as “a Vanderbilt wife” but who would go on to become a major figure in the American women’s suffrage movement. Fowler will discuss the book this week at the Durham Literacy Center’s annual fundraiser, which takes place at The Ruby. —Samuel Montgomery-Blinn