Nancy Horan returns with her new book \;The House of Lincoln\, a sweeping historical novel\, which tells the sto ry of Abraham Lincoln's ascendance from rumpled lawyer to U.S. president t o the Great Emancipator through the eyes of a young asylum-seeker who arri ves in Lincoln's home of Springfield from Madeira\, Portugal. \; Join Nancy Horan and Therese Fowler as they discuss Nancy&rsquo\;s new book\, T he House of Lincoln which will be published June 6.
\nIn addition to her new book\, Nancy Horan is the author of Loving Frank \;(2007) whi ch chronicles a little-known chapter in the life of legendary American arc hitect Frank Lloyd Wright\, and his client\, Mamah Cheney\, and \;Unde r the Wide and Starry Sky \;(2014) which explores the unlikely relatio nship of Robert Louis Stevenson and his spirited American wife\, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson. \; A native Midwesterner\, Nancy Horan was a Chic ago journalist before turning to fiction writing. She now lives with her h usband on an island in Puget Sound. \;
\nTherese Anne Fowler is the New York Times bestselling author of \;It All Comes Down To This&n bsp\;(2022)\, \;A Good Neighborhood \;(2020)\, \;A Well-Behave d Woman \;(2018)\, and \;Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald \;(201 3). Raised in the Midwest\, she migrated to North Carolina in 1995. She ho lds a B.A. in sociology/cultural anthropology and an MFA in creative writi ng from North Carolina State University.
\nThis program is in partne rship with Burlington Public Library and other local libraries.
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