Signature Series: Award-Winning Author Laurie Lico Albanese

Mark your calendars for the latest installment of the series, which features award-winning novelist Laurie Lico Albanese.
New this month is the afternoon Signature Sneak Peek.ย
Award-Winning Author Laurie Lico Albanese
Event Details
Date: 7 pm Friday, April 28
Location: Carrico/Fort Thomas Branch (1000 Highland Ave.)
The Signature Series’ next installment features award-winning novelist Laurie Lico Albanese, author of Stolen Beautyย andย Hester.
Albanese will discuss how other artists, such as Gustav Klimt and Nathaniel Hawthorne, inspire the way she crafts her books.
The presentation will be followed by a brief reception with an opportunity to get autographs! Light refreshments will be provided. Roebling Point Books will be available to purchase books on-site and you can check out Albanese’s books from our catalog.
Free tickets are required.ย
Tickets will be mailed two weeks prior to the event. Tickets requested after that time will be available at the Patron Services desk on the evening of the performance. The Carrico/Fort Thomas Branch will close at 5 pm to set up for the event.
Thank you to the Friends of the Campbell County Public Library for making the Signature Series possible.
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New! Signature Sneak Peek
Sneak Peek Details
Date: 2-2:45 pm Friday, April 28
Location:ย Carrico/Fort Thomas Branch (1000 Highland Ave., Fort Thomas, KY 41075)
If you’re interested in the event but are unable to attend in the evening, join the library for the afternoon Signature Sneak Peek.
You will still get a chance to hear from Albanese and get her autograph! The program offers a glimpse into the evening’s presentation.
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About the Author
Laurie Lico Albanese is an award-winning novelist and journalist.ย Inย Hester,ย her acclaimed 2022 retelling ofย The Scarlet Letter reimagines the origin story of Nathaniel Hawthorneโs classic book by asking: โWho is the real Hester Prynne?โ
Answering a centuries-long literary mystery,ย Hesterย gives life, power, and voice to the woman Hawthorne cast into the role of a scorned adulteress. It offers a fresh and empowering perspective on the source of her scarlet letter.
Illuminating the lives of nineteenth-century women alongside the Salem witchย trialsย and Nathaniel Hawthorneโs emerging career,ย Hesterย isย a richย taleย aboutย the price a woman pays for creativity and independence and the many ways sisterhood is important toย a womanโs survival in every age.
Hesterย received several recognitions, including an Audible Best Books of 2022; an IndieNext; a Canadian and American Librarians October 2022 selection; a Gillian Flynn Best Books of Fall 2022; a Book of the Month club selection; and a longlistย finalist in Goodreads Best Books of the Year.
Albaneseโsย novelย Stolen Beauty,ย about Gustav Klimtโs famous portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer (aka the lady in gold),ย was praised by theย Wall Street Journalย as โa work of art itself.โย
Albanese is a recipient of the Catherine R. Dodge Foundation Visiting Fellowship for the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, a Hadassah-Brandeisย Research Award, and a Newย Jersey Stateย Councilย of the Arts Fellowship in Fiction Writing. She teaches creative memoir writing at Montclair State University and has taught at Wager Collegeย and theย Stonecoast Summer Writing Programย atย the University of Southern Maine.ย Her novels have been translated into Italian, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, and soon, Croatian. Sheย lives with her husband in Montclair, NJ, where they raised their two grown children.
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