The Author Salon Series brings together public and private book clubs, library supporters, lovers of literature and authors in a lively but relaxed atmosphere of intellectual exploration. Participants meet the authors of their favorite books and share their passion with other book enthusiasts.
Proceeds from these events support the Pima Library Foundation.
Heidi Osselaer teaches history at Arizona State University. Her 2018 publication, Arizona’s Deadliest Gunfight: Draft Resistance and Tragedy at the Power Cabin, 1918, explores the 100-year old case of the shootout that has captured the curiosity of filmmakers and authors for decades.
Historian Carlos Schwantes writes, “I know of no other book quite like this one. In Heidi Osselaer’s capable hands, a seemingly minor confrontation in a remote canyon in the mountains of eastern Arizona becomes a mirror reflecting many larger issues that gripped early-twentieth-century America. This is nonfiction at its finest.”
