St. Louis Public Library

ST. LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY'S FEBRUARY AUTHORS @ YOUR LIBRARY SERIES LINEUP

 

The St. Louis Public Library is proud to present Wil Haygood, Larry Swedroe, and Dr. Priscilla Dowden-White as part of the February installment of its popular Authors @ Your Library series.  The events are FREE and open to the public.

 

• Wil Haygood delivers the Library's Black History Month Keynote Address as he discusses and signs his book, The Butler: A Witness to History. The New York Times bestseller is the basis for the critically and popularly acclaimed movie. The event takes place at Central Library, 1301 Olive St., on February 9 at 2 p.m.  Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.

 

For 17 years, Haygood was a national and foreign correspondent for The Boston Globe, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. While covering the civil war in Somalia in 1990, he was taken hostage by rebels and eventually released with the aid of Pakistani troops. On another assignment, he found himself outside the South African prison when Nelson Mandela was released after 27 years of imprisonment.

 

In 2002, Haygood joined The Washington Post as a national writer. He was one of the first journalists into New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck, a story that he covered for 33 straight days.

 

For more information, call 314-539-0315.

 

Books available for purchase courtesy of Amber Books.

 

 

• Larry Swedroe discusses and signs Think, Act, and Invest Like Warren Buffett: The Winning Strategy to Help You Achieve Your Financial and Life Goals.  The event takes place at the Central Library, 1301 Olive St., on February 10 at 6:30 p.m.

 

Swedroe is a principal and the director of research for the BAM ALLIANCE, a community of independent wealth management firms located throughout the United States. He has authored or co-authored 12 other books.

 

Books available for purchase courtesy of the author.

 

 

• Dr. Priscilla Dowden-White discusses and signs Groping Toward Democracy: African American Social Welfare Reform in St. Louis, 1910-1949.  The event takes place at the Buder Branch, 4401 Hampton Ave., on February 15 at 10 a.m.

 

Enjoy light breakfast with Dowden-White, a professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, as she discusses civil rights in St. Louis in the time leading up to the Civil Rights Movement.

 

Books available for purchase courtesy of the author.

 

 

• Ayana Mathis discusses and signs The Twelve Tribes of Hattie.  The event takes place at St. Louis County Library Headquarters, 1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd., on February 15 at 7 p.m.

 

Mathis is this month's Read St. Louis author.  Read St. Louis is a community-wide reading initiative in which the St. Louis Public Library partners with St. Charles City-County Library and St. Louis County Library to encourage St. Louisans to read and discuss books.

 

Books available for purchase courtesy of Left Bank Books.

 

 

For more information, call 314-880-8759.

 

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