Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 7 p.m.
Jamaica Kincaid

McMaster Center, Main Library, 325 Michigan St.

Writer, novelist, and professor Jamaica Kincaid skillfully and elegantly tempers the boundary between poetry and prose.  Using life to inspire fiction, Kincaid often explores the complexity of relationships in her writing.  Through her books and novels, including Annie John, Lucy, At the Bottom of the River and A Small Place, she has carved out a unique and cherished place in the American literary landscape. more>>

Thursday, April 18, 2013 at 7 p.m.
Richard Norton Smith

McMaster Center, Main Library, 325 Michigan St.

Presidential Historian and former head of six presidential libraries, Richard Norton Smith is a nationally recognized expert on the American presidency and appears regularly on C-Span and “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.”  He has published numerous books, including “Founding Rivals: Madison vs. Monroe, The Bill of Rights, and the Election That Saved a Nation” (2011), “The Modern American Presidency” (2nd Edition 2009), and  “An Uncommon Man: The Triumph of Herbert Hoover” (1984).  Mr. Smith is currently a scholar and teacher at George Mason University in suburban Washington, D.C.

Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 7 p.m.  (No book signing.)
Anna Quindlen

Stranahan Theater, 4645 Heatherdowns Blvd.

Bestselling author, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and social critic Anna Quindlen’s library of work provides perspectives on daily life, delicately balancing the political with the personal.  Twelve of Quindlen’s books, including six of her novels, have appeared on the New York Times Best Sellers list.  Some of her more recent novels include Every Last One (2010), Rise and Shine (2006) and Blessings (2002).