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Amor Towles will be the speaker at the seventh annual Mt. Lebanon Public Library Speaker Series, an event to honor the memory of Joe Wertheim, an avid reader and long-time library patron who had served nine years on the library board, including a term as President, and was the President of the Friends of Mt. Lebanon Public Library.
Born and raised in the Boston area, Amor Towles graduated from Yale College and received an MA in English from Stanford University. His thesis at Stanford, a short story cycle called “The Temptations of Pleasure”, was published in 1989 in Paris Review No. 112.
Mr. Towles’s first novel, Rules of Civility, which was published in 2011, was a New York Times bestseller and was named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best books of 2011. The book has been translated into over 15 languages, its French translation receiving the 2012 Prix Fitzgerald. In the fall of 2012, the novel was optioned by Lionsgate to be made into a feature film.
Mr. Towles’s second novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, which was published in 2016, has been on the New York Times bestseller list for over 52 weeks in hardcover and was named one of the best books of 2016 by the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the San Francisco Chronicle, and NPR. The book has been translated into over thirty-five languages including Russian. In the summer of 2017, the novel was optioned by Entertainment One and the British director, Tom Harper, to be made into a 6-8 hour miniseries starring Kenneth Branagh. He is also the author of the ebook You Have Arrived at Your Destination, part of Amazon's Forward collection.
Mr. Towles will join us to discuss his new novel, The Lincoln Highway (Viking, October 5, 2021). Order your copy in advance from Riverstone Books here.
Mellon Middle School Auditorium (adult audience)
11 Castle Shannon Blvd
Pittsburgh, Pa 15228
(across from Mt. Lebanon Library)
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An Evening with Amor Towles
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Mellon Middle School Auditorium
11 Castle Shannon Blvd. Pittsburgh, PA
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An Evening with Amor Towles
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Mellon Middle School Auditorium
11 Castle Shannon Blvd. Pittsburgh, PA
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An Evening with Amor Towles
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Mellon Middle School Auditorium
11 Castle Shannon Blvd. Pittsburgh, PA
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