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 […]
Elizabeth Crook is the author of four other novels and numerous articles. Among her novels, The Night Journal was awarded the 2007 Spur award for Best Long Novel of the West and the 2007 Willa Literary Award for Historical Fiction. Monday, Monday was awarded the 2015 Jesse H. Jones award for fiction. Crook resides in […]
November 14, 2019 Austin, Texas writer, W.K. Stratton is the author of The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film. The Wild Bunch, W.K. Stratton tells the fascinating history of the making of the movie and documents for the first time the extraordinary contribution of Mexican and […]
December 12, 2019 66 on 66 A Photographer’s Journey is the latest collection of photographs by the “Big Daddy of the Mother Road” and Tucson resident, Terrence Moore. Moore grew up near Route 66 in Claremont, California, and has been photographing the iconic highway celebrated in story, song, and films for nearly 50 years. Known […]
January 16, 2020 Bill Broyles and Bruce Dinges have collaborated in editing a collection of fifty reflections on the life and work of award-winning author Charles Bowden. Growing up in Tucson, Bill fell in love with the Southwest and its literature at an early age. His lifelong friendship with Bowden began when Chuck suggested taking […]
February 13, 2020 Peg Bowden is the author of the 2019 publication, A Stranger at My Door: Finding My Humanity on the US-Mexico Border. When a man appears at the door of her home in the Sonoran Desert lost and half-dead, Peg Bowden must examine the values that drive her life choices, which aren’t currently aligned with […]
We regret to inform you that, citing concerns of the Coronavirus, Author Evan Thomas has made the decision not to travel to Tucson for our Salon and the Tucson Festival of Books. For those of you who have already purchased tickets to this event, we will be reaching out to each of you individually. Please […]
On the road to Mount Lemmon… Discover Sara Lemmon, Mount Lemmon namesake and remarkable hidden figure of science, with Wynne Brown, author of the forthcoming book Like Death to be Idle: Sara Plummer Lemmon, 19th-Century Botanist and Artist. Wynne will be joined by UA School of Art Professor, Ellen McMahon. Recorded: January 14, 2021 at 4:00 pm Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/yxlQCJCa3F0
We are what we eat… Join Carolyn Niethammer, author of the recently-published A Desert Feast: Celebrating Tucson’s Culinary Heritage and Gregory McNamee, author of Tortillas, Tiswin and T-Bones: A Food History of the Southwest, for a lively discussion of the edible Southwest. Recorded: February 11, 2021 at 4:00 pm Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eXU3lWKj1k
Treasured Legacies Primary contributors are Priscilla Baldwin, Peggy Larson, Craig Ivanyi, and Anne Warner. Treasured Legacies chronicles the Desert Museum’s years of dynamic conservation programming while celebrating Priscilla Baldwin’s contributions to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (ASDM). Through photographs and Priscilla’s scratchboard art, this beautiful book includes a history of the ASDM, from its establishment in 1952, to ongoing […]
Send a Runner: A Navajo Honors the Long Walk Edison Eskeets ran the grueling, 330 miles between Canyon de Chelly and Santa Fe in 15 days—the equivalent of a marathon every day—to honor the memory of his Diné ancestors’ return from the ravages of the Long March. Join Eskeets and co-author Jim Kristofic as they […]
The Sacred Bridge – Anne Hillerman An ancient mystery resurfaces with ramifications for the present day in this gripping chapter in the Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series from New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman. Guests may bring their own book for signing or might choose to purchase a book at the event. Location: Tucson’s historic Hacienda […]
