september, 2019

Event Details
Author Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg returns to The Hickory Stick Bookshop on Sunday, September 8th for a discussion and signing. Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg is the author of Eden: A Novel, winner of
Event Details
Author Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg returns to The Hickory Stick Bookshop on Sunday, September 8th for a discussion and signing.
Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg is the author of Eden: A Novel, winner of the Beverly Hills Book Award for Women’s Fiction and finalist for the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best New Voice in Fiction and Sarton Women’s Book Award for Historical Fiction. After graduating from Smith College, she embarked on a career in finance. Though she worked primarily with numbers, she was always reading and writing. After holding jobs on Wall Street, at Macy’s, and writing case studies at Harvard Business School, she turned her attention to memoir and fiction. Blasberg founded the Westerly Memoir Project. She sits on the board of the Boston Book Festival and Grub Street, one of the country’s preeminent creative writing centers. She and her husband have three grown children and split time between Boston, MA, and Westerly, RI. She loves to travel, play squash, ski, and take in the glorious sunsets over Little Narragansett Bay.
This event is free and open to the public. If you are unable to attend this event, you may reserve a signed copy of The Nine by calling The Hickory Stick Bookshop at (860) 868 0525. For further information about this event please visit www.hickorystickbookshop.com or email [email protected]
Time
(Sunday) 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm