Authors Diane Ackerman, Bernard MacLaverty, Valerie Martin and Eric Wright read from their latest books. George Murray opens the event with a poetry reading. Anne Hines hosts.
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Poet, essayist, and naturalist Diane Ackerman is the author of many highly acclaimed works of non-fiction, including A Natural History of the Senses and A Natural History of Love, and poetry volumes including Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems.
Anne Hines is the author of two collections of nonfiction and three novels. She is former humour columnist for Canadian Living and currently writes a weekly humour column for Metro newspaper.
Bernard MacLaverty has written four collections of stories and four novels, including Grace Notes which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award.
Valerie Martin is the author of three collections of short fiction, seven novels, including Mary Reilly, filmed with Julia Roberts and John Malkovich, and the 2003 Orange Prize-winning Property.
George Murray is a poet and the former Poetry Editor for the Literary Review of Canada. Murray has also been on the part-time poetry faculty at New School University in New York City and taught at Humber College in Toronto.
Eric Wright is the award-winning author of detective fiction including the Charlie Salter mysteries, a comic novel, Moodies Tale, and a memoir, Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man, for which he was nominated for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary non-fiction. He presents Finding Home, in which a man returns to England 30 years after immigrating to Canada, and discovers that sometimes you have to leave home to find it.
