Name: Noe Valley Word Weekend: Karen Joy Fowler & Katie Hafner In Conversation
Start: 2023-03-03T19:00:00-08:00
Location: Bethany United Methodist Church

Noe Valley Word Weekend: Karen Joy Fowler & Katie Hafner In Conversation

Folio Books and Noe Valley Word Week

Award-winning authors Karen Joy Fowler and Katie Hafner in a lively conversation about their newest books! Q&A + signing to follow.

Bethany United Methodist Church

KAREN JOY FOWLER is the New York Times bestselling author of seven novels and three short story collections. Her 2004 novel, The Jane Austen Book Club, spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s previous novel, Sister Noon, was a finalist for the 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Her debut novel, Sarah Canary, won the Commonwealth medal for best first novel by a Californian, was listed for the Irish Times International Fiction Prize as well as the Bay Area Book Reviewers Prize, and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s short story collection Black Glass won the World Fantasy Award in 1999, and her collection What I Didn’t See won the World Fantasy Award in 2011. Her novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, won the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction and was short-listed for the 2014 Man Booker Prize. Her newest novel <a href="https://www.foliosf.com/book/9780593331453" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Booth is soon to be out in paperback</a>.KATIE HAFNER is a journalist and author who writes for The New York Times and The Washington Post. She is the author of six non-fiction books, including the memoir, Mother Daughter Me; A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould&#x27;s Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano (which Kirkus called &quot;the musical version of Seabiscuit); The House at the Bridge: A Story of Modern Germany; Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet (with Matthew Lyon). She is host and co-executive producer of the popular podcast, Lost Women of Science. Her first novel,<a href="https://www.foliosf.com/book/9781954118058" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Boys</a>, was published in July 2022. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, Bob Wachter.10% of the proceeds from all sales at this event will be donated to <a href="https://www.glide.org/centerforsocialjustice/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">GLIDE&#x27;S Center for Social Justice</a>, a nonprofit selected by the authors.

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