Pulitzer Prize Winner comes to Hamden Library

 2011 marks the bicentennial of Connecticut author Harriet Beecher Stowe's birth. To commemorate the event Dr. Joan Hedrick, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning "Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life" will bring her expertise to Hamden Public Library's discussion of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." This event, scheduled for 7 p.m. on Monday, September 26th in the Activity Room of the Hamden Senior Center at 2901 Dixwell Avenue, focuses on the often controversial anti-slavery novel originally published in 1852 which serves as a prime example for Banned Books Week (Sept.24-Oct.1) at the library.

Dr. Hedrick is the Charles A. Dana Professor of History at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where she has taught since 1980. Her book on Stowe, the first full-length biography of the author in over fifty years, was published in 1994. It was a New York Times Notable Book, and won not only the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, but also the Christopher Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award.

Copies of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" are available at the library. Copies of Professor Hedrick's book "Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life" will be available for purchase at this event. This program is open to the public and is presented free of charge. For more information please call 203-287-2680.