Terese Svoboda - "Hitler & My Mother-in-Law"
Terese Svoboda will discuss her new book Hitler & My Mother-in-Law. A Q&A and book signing will follow the discussion.
At the Co-op
About the Book: Threaded with dark humor and sharp observation, this intriguing memoir interweaves the lives of two women: the author, a renowned writer, and her husband‘s mother, the only female journalist to cover WWII in both Atlantic and Pacific theaters.
About the Author: A Guggenheim fellow, Terese Svoboda is the author of twenty-four books. She has won the Bobst Prize in fiction, the Iowa Prize for poetry, an NEH grant for translation, the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, a Jerome Foundation prize for video, the O. Henry award for the short story, and a Pushcart Prize for the essay. She is a three-time winner of the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, and has been awarded Headlands, James Merrill, Hawthornden, Hermitage, Yaddo, MacDowell, Rowland, VCCA, Bogliasco, and Bellagio residencies. Her opera WET premiered at L.A.’s Disney Hall.
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