Author Terence Hawkins At Norwalk Library Feb. 21

From the Norwalk Public Library:

February 4 2020

Norwalk, CT–AuthorSpeak at Norwalk Public Library is pleased to welcome Terence Hawkins, in a discussion of his second novel, American Neolithic, on Friday, February21, at 12 noon, in the Main Auditorium, located at 1 Belden Avenue, Norwalk. A light lunch will be provided courtesy of the library.

American Neolithic, first published in 2014, was called "a towering work of speculative fiction," and named a Kirkus Reviews Best of 2014. It has been called “a stunning, alarming, and deftly crafted read that has author Terence Hawkins's novel achieving a similar literary status to the likes of George Orwell's 1984." - Midwest Book Review

Terence Hawkins was raised in Fayette County, PA, a former coal hub, later distinguished as the setting for the original “Night of the Living Dead” and “American Rust.” He graduated from Yale, where he was Publisher of the Yale Daily News, and received a law degree from the University of Wisconsin. In 2012 he became the founding Director of the Yale Writers’ Conference, which he developed and managed through 2015. He is now the Director of the Company of Writers and Prose Editor of Blue Mountain Review.

Hawkins’ first novel, The Rage of Achilles, is a realistic and sometimes brutal account of the Iliad based on the theory of the bicameral mind. Turing's Graveyard, a collection of his short stories, will appear in 2020 from Running Wild Press.

Books will be available for purchase and signing. This program is free and open to the public.

Please register for this program by contacting Cynde Bloom Lahey, Director of Library Information Services, at (203) 899-2780 ext. 15133, or clahey@norwalkpl.org.

This press release was produced by the Norwalk Public Library. The views expressed here are the author’s own.