We are happy to welcome Author Elizabeth Birkelund on Monday, June 3, at 7 pm, for a conversation about her new book, A Northern Light in Provence. The program will take place in the Program Room, Radcliffe Children’s Library. Ms. Birkelund will be interviewed by Susan Shapiro Barash, author of Maribelle’s Shadow, written under the pseudonym Susannah Marren.
A woman leaves her coastal Greenland village to translate the works of an elderly Provençal poet and finds her life irrevocably changed in this tender and romantic novel set in a French village.
Elizabeth Birkelund is the author of two previous novels, The Runaway Wife and The Dressmaker. She started her career in the editorial department of European Travel and Life magazine, then turned to freelance writing as a monthly personal finance columnist for Cosmopolitan. She has written for numerous national publications, including Glamour, Self, Working Woman, and Victoria. You may follow her work and travels on Instagram and Facebook.
Susan Shapiro Barash has written over a dozen nonfiction books, including Tripping the Prom Queen, You’re Grounded Forever, But First Let’s Go Shopping and A Passion for More: Affairs that Make or Break Us. For more than twenty years she taught gender studies in the Writing Department at Marymount Manhattan College and has guest taught creative nonfiction at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College. For her fiction, Between the Tides, A Palm Beach Wife, A Palm Beach Scandal and Maribelle’s Shadow, she writes as Susannah Marren.
Copies of Ms. Birkelund’s books and Ms. Barash’s books will be available for sale at the event courtesy of Athena Books.
For more information, contact Judy Sgammato at 203-637-1066 x15 or at lending@perrotlibrary.org.
