Nick West's presentation - Summarized by Bonnie Ogle - On August 13, novelist and local businessman Nick West spoke to the general meeting of the Writers Alliance of Gainesville about using family stories to create a historical novel. A fifth generation Floridian, West has a plethora of family stories, which … Read More
Mallory M. O’Connor is first on the program for the Alachua County Library's new Local Author Series. On September 16, O'Connor will discuss her debut novel, American River: Tributaries, which follows the entwined lives of three immigrant families as they settle along this river in Northern California during the turbulent … Read More
Summary of M. W. Gordon's talk by Penny Church-Pupke. Retired UF law professor turned mystery writer Michael Gordon (pen name M.W. Gordon) presented a program entitled “Ask not for whom the pen writes, it writes for me.” A published author of nonfiction and fiction, Gordon’s debut novel Deadly Drifts, the … Read More
On Sunday, October 22, Gene Cowell was the featured speaker in the Alachua County Library’s Local Author Series. Cowell discussed the evolution of popular crime fiction from its Nineteenth-Century roots through classic British “cozy” mysteries of the early Twentieth-Century, and the enduring noir novels of famous American authors from Raymond … Read More
