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Monday, July 8, 2013

Historical Fiction Writer Adam Braver Today

Adam Braver, award-winning author of novels that reimagine the Kennedy assassination, the Lincoln presidency, and the lives of Marilyn Monroe and Sarah Bernhardt, will present a free reading tonight in Saratoga.

Full schedule of free events here: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/sumread.html

About the Kennedy novel, November 22, 1963, Publisher's Weekly said, "With a captivating mix of fact and fiction, Braver chronicles the events surrounding JFK’s assassination to moving effect . . . While the accumulation of small moments gives the book its weightiness, the stories of people peripherally associated with the assassination make the book sing . . . Braver reveals the tragedy of a national story that decades later can still be acutely felt."

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