Gaithersburg Book Festival (2022) -- B.A. Shapiro ("Metropolis") w/Jennifer Bort Yacovissi:
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Fiction
F. Scott Fitzgerald Pavilion
Best-selling author B.A. Shapiro presents her novel, "Metropolis." Shapiro gives us a cast of unforgettable characters whose lives intersect when a harrowing accident occurs at a storage warehouse in Cambridge. But was it an accident? A suicide? A murder?
Interviewed by Jennifer Bort Yacovissi
Fiction
B. A. Shapiro
Latest Title: Metropolis
B. A. Shapiro is the best-selling author of “Metropolis,” “The Collector’s Apprentice,” “The Muralist” and “The Art Forger,” which won the New England Book Award for Fiction and the Boston Authors Society Award for Fiction, among other honors. Her books have been selected as community reads in numerous cities and translated throughout the world. Before becoming a novelist, she taught sociology at Tufts University and creative writing at Northeastern University. She and her husband, Dan, divide their time between Boston and Florida.
Fiction
Jennifer Bort Yacovissi
Latest Title: Up the Hill to Home
Jennifer Bort Yacovissi’s debut novel, “Up the Hill to Home,” tells the story of four generations of a family in Washington, D.C., from the Civil War to the Great Depression. Her fiction has appeared in Gargoyle and Pen-in-Hand. Jenny is a member of PEN/America and the National Book Critics’ Circle, reviews regularly for the Washington Independent Review of Books, and serves as president of the Independent’s Board of Directors. She has served as chair and program director of the Washington Writers Conference since 2017, and for several recent years was president of the Annapolis chapter of the Maryland Writers’ Association.
Jenny will be interviewing Stacie Murphy (“The Unquiet Dead”).
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