Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation Presents: The Professors' Wives' Club: The Fiction and Reality of NYU's Development in Greenwich Village January 28, 2009

Part one of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation’s Women Authors of Greenwich Village mini-series. Joanne Rendell’s debut novel The Professors’ Wives’ Club tells the story of four women who take on a ruthless university dean who threatens to demolish a beloved faculty garden in the heart of Greenwich Village. Ms. Rendell will read from The Professors’ Wives’ Club and talk about her inspiration for this novel which tackles important issues about NYU's encroachment on the Village in a fictionalized way.

Copies of The Professors’ Wives’ Club will be available for purchase courtesy of the author.

Free; reservations required
RSVP to rsvp@gvshp.org or (212) 475-9585 ext. 35

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