Carnegie Author Series with Columbus Metropolitan Library

The Columbus Metropolitan Library is always striving to connect readers with books and authors, and they’ve really met the mark with these Author Talks. The Carnegie Author Series Author Talks brings national authors to you!

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2024 Carnegie Author Series Author Talks

The Carnegie Author Series is free and open to all. Registration is required to ensure enough space.

Sunday, Feb. 18 | 2 p.m. 
Brendan Slocumb, author of Symphony of Secrets
Music educator and best-selling novelist

Sunday, April 7 | 2 p.m.
Rebecca Yarros, author of Iron Flame
New York Times bestselling author of the popular Empyrean series. 

Sunday, May 19 | 2 p.m.
Lisa Scottoline, author of The Truth about Devlins
New York Times bestselling author and Edgar award-winning author of 35 novels.

Sunday, Sept. 8 | 2 p.m.
Abby Jimenez, author of Just for the Summer
New York Times bestselling author and Food Network champion with her bakery Nadia Cakes.

Sunday, Oct. 6 | 2 p.m.
Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Angel of Indian Lake
New York Times bestselling author of over thirty novels and collections.

Sunday, Dec. 8 | 2 p.m.
Dr. Matthew Desmond, author of Poverty, by America
Professor of sociology at Princeton University and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.

See Columbus Metropolitan Library website for more details and registration.

Main Library
96 S. Grant Avenue
Columbus, OH 43215
614-645-2275

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