Jamestown Authors April 26, 2007

The 400th Anniversary of Jamestown has spurred a boom in publishing related to the first permanent English settlement in the New World. Seven authors of five Jamestown-related books will discuss their works on Thursday, April 26 at 7 p.m. in the Williamsburg Library Theatre, 515 Scotland Street. The program is free of charge. Copies of all the titles will be available for purchase and signing. For further information, contact Adult Services at (757) 259-4050.

The books - both fiction and non-fiction - cover more than just the first English settlement. Topics range from the geography and imagery of the James River itself, to the oral history that preserves Pocahontas memory, to imaginative retellings of the colonys first years. Together they present the complex mosaic of the history, culture and landscape of our region.

Authors appearing include:
-- K.K. Bruno, whose novel Mischiefs and Miseries was nominated for the 2007 James Fenimore Cooper Prize.
-- Avery Chenoweth and Robert Llewellyn, authors of Empires in the Forest, which was praised by Smithsonian magazine for its spectacular photography with a vivid text.
-- Lin 'Little Bear' Custalow and Angie Daniel 'Silver Star,' whose The True Story of Pocahontas was called by the Virginia Gazette a must-read for anyone interested in the full story of the epic of Jamestown and its participants.
-- Bob Deans whose The River Where America Began has been described by Publishers Weekly as Absorbingrichly detailedvivid.
-- George Robert Minkoff, author of the novel The Weight of Smoke, praised by Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry as an excellent evocation of the beginnings of the Jamestown Colony.

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