Event Name: "The Bones of Paradise: A Novel Examined" with author Jonis Agee
Date/Time: Wednesday, Mat 25, 2022 at 8:30 AM UTC+08
The Alliance Public Library will be hosting a program by author Jonis Agee titled, “The Bones of Paradise: A Novel Examined”. The program is scheduled for Tuesday, May 24th at 6:30p.m. in the Alliance Public Library Community Room.
Nebraska author Jones Agee’s novel, Bones of Paradise, the 2022 One Book, One Nebraska selection, offers readers a multi-generational saga set in the Nebraska Sand Hills. Agee discusses how she came to write this story in this setting, and shares her approaches to research, character development and more.
Jonis Agee was born in Omaha and grew up in both Nebraska and Missouri, graduating from Central High School in Omaha. She earned her BA from The University of Iowa, and her MA and PhD from the State University of New York – Binghamton University. After living briefly in Los Angeles, she then taught at The College of St. Catherine (now St. Catherine University) in St. Paul, MN, and at the University of Michigan, before returning to her home state to teach at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Agee is currently the Adele Hall Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she specializes in Fiction, Creative Fiction and Modern and Contemporary American Literature. Agee and her husband, Brent Spencer, live on an acreage north of Omaha, Nebraska, overlooking the Missouri River, where they have recently founded a literary press, Brighthorse Books, publishing fiction and poetry books. She also owns land outside Valentine, in the Sandhills region. Her experiences with the landscape of the Sandhills have influenced several of her stories and novels.
This presentation is made possible by Humanities Nebraska, the Nebraska Cultural Endowment, and the Alliance Public Library as part of the HN Speakers Bureau.
“The Bones of Paradise: A Novel Examined” is one of approximately 300 programs offered through the Humanities Nebraska Speakers Bureau. The more than 165 available speakers include acclaimed scholars, writers, musicians, storytellers and folklorists on topics ranging from pioneer heritage to ethics and law to international and multicultural issues, making it the largest humanities speakers bureau in the nation.
For information detailing the available speakers and guidelines for booking them, please access the Humanities Nebraska website at www.humanitiesnebraska.org (Speakers section) or contact Humanities Nebraska at 215 Centennial Mall South, Suite 330, Lincoln, NE 68508, phone (402) 474-2131, fax (402) 474-4852 or e-mail info@humanitiesnebraska.org.
For more information on this program at the Alliance Public Library, please contact Adult Services Librarian Emily Nelson at 308-762-1387 or email enelson@cityofalliance.net.
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