Gwen FlorioAugust 5, 2017 at 7 pm Warner Town Hall
Award-winning journalist Gwen Florio has covered
stories ranging from the shooting at Columbine High School and the
Oklahoma City bombing trials, to the glitz of the Miss America pageant
and the more practical Miss Navajo contest, whose participants slaughter
and cook a sheep. She’s reported from Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia, as
well as Lost Springs, Wyoming (population three). Her journalism has
been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and her short fiction for the
Pushcart Prize. She turned to fiction in 2013 with the publication of
her first novel, Montana, which won the Pinckley Prize for Debut Crime
Fiction and a High Plains Book Award. Reservations (March 2017) is the
fourth novel in the Lola Wicks series, termed “gutsy” by the New York
Times. A fifth is scheduled for 2018, as is a stand-alone novel set in
Afghanistan.
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