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Harvard Book Store Presents...
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VERICON VIII Book Signings with ORSON SCOTT CARD, LOIS LOWRY, M.T. ANDERSON, KELLY LINK, JAMES KELLY and more! SIGNING SCHEDULE FOR 1/26 1:00-1:45 pm James Kelly and Elizabeth Haydon
1:45-2:30 pm Donna Jo Napoli and Cassandra Clare
2:30-3:15 pm M.T. Anderson and Kelly Link
3:15-4:00 pm Lois Lowry and Sharyn November
7:00-8:00 pm Orson Scott Card
Harvard Book Store is pleased to announce that Vericon VIII Sci-fi and Young Adult fiction authors will be signing books in our store on the afternoon of January 26th. Please note individual authors and times. ABOUT VERICON VIII Vericon VIII will take place Friday through Sunday, January 25-27, 2008, featuring all-day anime showings, RPGs, the Art Show, Verilympics tournament gaming, the Masquerade Ball, and a movie mocked in the style of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Vericon VIII is sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association (HRSFA), an undergraduate student group.
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CONTACT:
General Info:
617.661.1515
Media:
617.661.1424 ex.1
Email:
mcook@harvardsquarebookstore.com
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| DATE: |
Saturday, January 26th |
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1:00 PM |
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Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge |
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This event is free; no tickets are required |
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Orson Scott Card was the first writer to receive both the Hugo and
Nebula awards for best novel two years in a row, first for Ender's Game and then for the sequel Speaker for the Dead. He lives with his wife and children in North Carolina.
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Lois Lowry was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and educated at Brown University and the University of Southern Maine. She has an honorary doctorate from the University of Southern Maine and Elmhurst College, is a Fellow of the MacDowell Colony, and is a member of the Authors Guild, Pen American, the PEN New England Executive Board, and the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators. She has written magazine articles and thirty-one books for young people and has won numerous awards, most notably the Newbery Medal for two of her books, Number the Stars and The Giver.
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Matthew Tobin Anderson (M. T. Anderson) is an author, primarily of picture books for children and novels for young adults. Anderson lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His picture books include Handel Who Knew What He Liked, Strange Mr. Satie, The Serpent Came to Gloucester, and Me, All Alone, at the End of the World. He has written such young adult books as Thirsty, Burger Wuss, Feed, The Game of Sunken Places, and Octavian Nothing. For middle grader readers, his novels include Whales on Stilts and its sequel, The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen.
Anderson attended Harvard, the University of Cambridge, and Syracuse. He worked at Candlewick Press before Thirsty was accepted for publication. Anderson is a former instructor at Vermont College and former music critic at The Improper Bostonian.
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