The Journey of the Writer: Reality and the Imagination October 4, 2009

Part of the 2009 One Book One Lincoln special programming.

Geraldine Brooks, author of People of The Book has been quoted as saying that she loves "to find stories from the past where we can know something, but not everything; where there is enough of a historical record to have left us with an intriguing factual scaffolding, but where there is also ….room for imagination to work." Timothy Schaffert, Director of the Nebraska Summer Writers' Conference, is author of The Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters, The Singing and Dancing Daughters of God and most recently Devils in the Sugar Shop. Schaffert, who is currently at work on his fourth novel, is intrigued by the idea of books within books and stories about stories, such as those found in People of the Book. He will relate stories from his own writing experiences and from his reading and teaching experiences, including his own historical research venture, investigating the Omaha's World Fair of 1898 in preparation for writing his fifth novel.

Official Website: http://www.lincolnlibraries.org/depts/bookguide/obol/obol2009/programs.htm