Michigan City Public Library Michigan City, Indiana Events Writing Out Loud Call 219-873-3049 for more information

By the end of 2006 , more than 104 nationally known writers and poets had appeared at the library, including Joyce Carol Oates, Gwendolyn Brooks, Haki Madhubuti, Jane Hamilton, Catherine Ryan Hyde and Andrew Greeley.  Writing Out Loud continues to attract the literary world's finest authors.

Writing Out Loud will celebrate it's 23rd season in 2007 with some unique speakers. 
You won't want to miss a single one!

All programs will be held at the Michigan City Public Library, 100 E. Fourth Street, Michigan City. Call 219-873-3049 for more information 

Neil Steinberg
Saturday, September 15, 2007,      7:30pm
Neil Steinberg is a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, where he has been on staff since 1987. He became a columnist there in 1995, and his column runs four days a week in the news section. Steinberg has written for a wide variety of publications, including Esquire, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Details, Men's Journal, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Newsweek-Japan, Granta, Spy, National Lampoon and Chicago. He is the author of five books: Hatless Jack, Don't Give Up the Ship, The Alphabet of Modern Annoyances, Complete and Utter Failure and If At All Possible Involve a Cow. His sixth book will be published by Dutton in 2008.  The interviewer for this program is Rick Richards.

James Cross Giblin
Sunday, September 30, 2007,  2:00pm    
James Cross Giblin is the author of more than twenty-five informational books, many of them award winners. Besides his "bad boy" biographies for young adults, he has written sympathetic studies of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin for younger children. Mr. Giblin grew up in northeastern Ohio, and has spent all of his adult life in New York City. His book, Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth, is suggested reading to enhance the experience of the Lincoln exhibit coming to the library in 2008. His new book, The Many Rides of Paul Revere, is due out in the fall of 2007.  The interviewer for the program is Betsy Kohn.

Robert Bruegmann
Saturday, October 13, 2007, 7:30pm
Robert Bruegmann is an historian of architecture, landscape and the built environment. His fields of research and teaching are architectural, urban, landscape, and planning history and historic preservation. He has received scholarships and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Graham Foundation, the Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University and the Institute for the Humanities and the Great Cities Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His most recent book, Sprawl: A Compact History, was published in 2005.  The interviewer for the program is Barbara Stodola.

Lois Ruby
Sunday, November 4, 2007,  2:00pm    
An English major at the University of California at Berkley, Lois went on to get a masters in library science and began her career as a Young Adult librarian at Dallas Public Library. This influenced her decision to write young adult stories. Her books include, Shanghai Shadows, Journey to Jamestown, Madrigal’s Melody, The Moxie Kid and Steal Away Home about a young girl who is growing up in a house that once hid runaway slaves during the Civil War. She and her husband Tom, a clinical psychologist, have three grown sons.  The interviewer for the program is Mary Gish.

All programs will be held at the the Michigan City Public Library, 100 E. Fourth Street, Michigan City.  Call 219-873-3049 for more information.

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