Posted September 9, 2024
Authors to the Pointe -- Sold Out
David Grann and Mathilda Zeller Speak October 5
Grosse Pointe Public Library welcomes two bestselling authors on Saturday, October 5 – David Grann and Mathilda Zeller. Authors to the Pointe will be held at the Edsel and Eleanor Ford House in Grosse Pointe Shores from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
“We’re honored to be able to bring two incredible authors to Grosse Pointe once again,” said Jessica Keyser, Library Director. ”Their two genres, historical nonfiction and horror and fantasy both tell amazing stories of intrigue, desperation and revenge.”
David Grann is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and award-winning staff writer at the New Yorker magazine.
His book, Killers of the Flower Moon documents one of the most sinister crimes and racial injustices in American history. It was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for the best true crime book. The book also was adapted into a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese. His latest book, The Wager, tells the true saga of a company of British naval officers and crew that became stranded on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia and descended into murderous anarchy.
Grann has a master’s degree in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and creative writing from Boston University. After graduating from Connecticut College, he received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship and did research in Mexico, where he began his journalism career.
Mathilda Zeller, which is a pen name, has lived in 18 cities across the United States and abroad. She is of Inuit decent and currently resides in Grosse Pointe. Her book, Never Whistle At Night was a national bestseller and a Shirley Jackson Award Nominee for Best Edited Anthology, a Bram Stoker Award nominee for Superior Achievement in an anthology and a Locus Award finalist. She also has written The Revenge of Bridget Cleary and The Bee King.
Tickets are sold out. Special thanks to our sponsor, The Friends of the Grosse Pointe Public Library.
