Author Helen Macdonald at Independence Grove

Author Helen Macdonald at Independence Grove

Helen MacDonald, author of H is for Hawk

(Grove Press $16.00, due March 8)

and Shaler's Fish: Poems

(Atlantic Monthly Press $22.00, due February 2)

Monday April 11 at 7:00 p.m.

Tickets are $26/$21 for Brushwood Center Members and include H is for Hawk

Student rate is $16.00 and includes H is for Hawk

Please register at brushwoodcenter.org

Lake Forest Book Store in partnership with Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods and Lake County Forest Preserve is pleased to announce an author talk with Helen MacDonald.

H is for Hawk

One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year

"In this elegant synthesis of memoir and literary sleuthing, an English academic finds that training a young goshawk helps her through her grief over the death of her father. With her three-year fellowship at the University of Cambridge nearly over, Macdonald, a trained falconer, rediscovers a favorite book of her childhood, T.H. White's The Goshawk (1951), in which White, author of The Once and Future King, recounts his mostly failed but illuminating attempts at training a goshawk, one of the most magnificent and deadly raptors. Macdonald secures her own goshawk, which she names Mabel, and the fierce wildness of the young bird soothes her sense of being broken by her father's untimely death." - Publishers Weekly

Shaler's Fish: Poems

In her debut collection of poetry, Macdonald, a British historian, naturalist, and illustrator goes beyond simply observing the natural world, displaying the indefatigable curiosity that motivated the early naturalists who inspire her. Macdonald employs her knowledge of the natural sciences as she deftly works scientific discoveries into poems on such subjects as love, politics, solitude, death, and more. Her imagery encompasses biology, geology, physics, weather patterns, and astronomy.

Helen Macdonald is a writer, poet, illustrator, historian, and naturalist, and an affiliated research scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses. She is the author of a cultural history of falcons, titled Falcon, and three collections of poetry. As a professional falconer, she assisted with the management of raptor research and conservation projects across Eurasia.

There will be a book signing following the program with books provided by Lake Forest Book Store.

Event date:

Monday, April 11, 2016 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Event address: Independence Grove16400 W. Buckley Road Libertyville, IL  60048