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Geraldine Brooks | Moderator | Ticket Information | Directions | Sponsors
 Australian-born journalist and international bestselling author, Geraldine Brooks, has covered some of the world’s most troubled areas including Bosnia, Somalia, and the Middle East during her eleven years as a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.
While in Sarajevo reporting on the Bosnian war, Brooks first heard about the Sarajevo Haggadah, a priceless, exquisitely beautiful, six-hundred-year-old book, and one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever to be illuminated with images. The amazing history of the manuscript which was endangered under the Nazi regime and during the Bosnian War, became the inspiration for People of the Book. Ingeniously conceived, suspenseful, and evocative, this novel follows a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war. Both threads of the novel—the historical and the contemporary—pulse with suspense and drama. People of the Book was named the Australian 2008 Book of the Year and 2008 Literary Fiction Book of the Year.
In the only North Carolina appearance of her national book tour for Penguin’s paperback release of People of the Book Ms. Brooks will share her insights on the Sarajevo Haggadah through conversation and pictures. Ms. Brooks’ second novel, March, garnered the 2006 Pulitzer for Fiction– and is a retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved classic Little Women from the point of view of Mr. March, the absent father who goes off to war. She is also the author of Year of Wonders, Nine Parts of Desire, and Foreign Correspondence. Brooks lives on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, with her husband, the author Tony Horwitz, and their family.
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 Guy M. Blynn is a North Carolinian by choice, having lived in Winston-Salem for more than 30 years, during which he practiced law with a major corporation. He is a cum laude graduated of both the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce of the University of Pennsylvania and of the Harvard Law School. He has served on numerous boards of both local and national organizations, including theIntellectual Property Law Section of the American Bar Association, Anti-Defamation League, the Winston-Salem Human Relations Commission and the Winston-Salem Zoning Board of Adjustment. Mr. Blynn established the “Blynn Holocaust Collection” at Forsyth Technical Community College in Winston-Salem. He loves good books.
Admission by ticket only. To purchase tickets beginning November 18, call Brown Paper Tickets 24/7 ticket hotline at 1-800-838-3006 (A small service and handling fee will be added to the ticket price). Visa, Mastercard or Discover can be used. Please note, tickets are non-refundable.
$18.00 – General Admission (doors open at 6:15 p.m., includes reception and booksigning)
$80.00 – Premier Admission (This private reception with Ms. Brooks begins at
5:30 p.m. and features heavy hors’doeuvres; a paperback copy of People of the Book;
a booksigning; reserved premier seating at the event; and limited VIP parking. $50.00 is tax deductible).
Educational group rates – Call 336 721-2739 to learn about Educational group rates for ten or more attendees.
All proceeds benefit BOOKMARKS Festival of Books, in presenting our annual book festival.
Presented with support from the Salem College Center for Women Writers
Salem College Fine Arts Center
From West of Winston-Salem:
Take I-40 East to Winston-Salem; exit onto Business 40.
Take the Salem College/Old Salem exit. At the end of the ramp, turn left.
Travel one-half block on South Liberty Street.
Turn left on to Cemetery Street; follow it until it ends at Salem Avenue and turn right.
At the intersection of Salem Avenue and Stadium Drive, turn right into the Salem
Fine Arts Center entrance; proceed to the bottom of the hill.
From Greensboro/East of Winston-Salem:
Take I-40 West to Winston-Salem; exit onto Business 40.
Take the Old Salem/Salem College exit, which is US 52 South.
Go a quarter-mile before taking the Salem College/Winston-Salem State/Stadium Drive exit.
At the end of the ramp, turn right onto Stadium Drive.
At the top of the hill, go straight into the Salem Fine Arts Center entrance;
proceed to the bottom of the hill.
Hanes Auditorium and Shirley Recital Hall in the Salem Fine Arts Center
are wheelchair accessible.
 
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