Author Julie “Jingles” Robards grew up in Fayette, graduated from Livermore Falls High School.
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Kingfield author releases fourteenth novel
Annie Louise Twitchell, an author from Kingfield released her fourteenth novel, titled “The People We Know” on Thursday, June 1.
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John Ford Sr., retired Maine game warden, author, dies at 71
A retired game warden who wrote a book about his experiences patrolling the Maine woods died Saturday after battling cancer. John Ford Sr., who joined the Maine Warden Service in 1970, was 71. In addition to his service as a warden, Ford served two terms as Waldo County sheriff and was a wildlife artist and […]
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Author of acclaimed book on sea level rise to deliver Otis Lecture at Bates
Writer and photographer Elizabeth Rush will deliver the Otis Lecture at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, in Bates College’s Olin Arts Center Concert Hall. Rush’s book, “Rising: Dispatches From the New American Shore,” was excerpted by The Guardian and praised by the Los Angeles Review of Books. Rush’s book details communities’ responses to rising sea levels. […]
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Cary Memorial Library to host Wayne author
WAYNE — The Cary Memorial Library invites the public to welcome Bobby Charles, speaking about and signing copies of his newly released book “Eagles and Evergreens: A Rural Maine Childhood,” at 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 19. Just published by North Country Press, his stories take readers to unexpected places, often swirling to unexpected endings. Over […]
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Amy Bass book signings at Wayne library and Norway bookstore
The Cary Memorial Library in Wayne and The Tribune bookstore in Norway will each be hosting Amy Bass, author of “One Goal: A Coach, A Team, and the Game That Brought a Divided Town Together,” for a meet-and-greet and book signing. She will be at The Tribune, 430 Main St., Norway, from 1 to 3 […]
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'Right Stuff' author Tom Wolfe dead at 88
NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Wolfe, the white-suited wizard of “New Journalism” who exuberantly chronicled American culture from the Merry Pranksters through the space race before turning his satiric wit to such novels as “The Bonfire of the Vanities” and “A Man in Full,” has died. He was 88. Wolfe’s literary agent, Lynn Nesbit, told […]
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Doiron at Ludden Library
Paul Doiron, a Maine native, will be at the Ludden Memorial Library, 42 Main St., Dixfield, at 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 1. Doiron is the author of the Mike Bowditch series of crime novels, including “The Poacher’s Son,” which won the Barry Award and the Strand Critics Award for Best First Novel and was nominated […]
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Author to speak on debut novel focused on Saudi women
Kay Hardy Campbell is a scholar on the Middle East, who now lives in Maine WAYNE — Maine author and Middle East specialist Kay Hardy Campbell will be the guest of Wayne’s Cary Library for the Meet-A-Maine-Author Series. The program begins at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 18. Campbell will discuss changes currently facing Saudi women […]
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Lewiston native has debut novel published by Islandport Press
YARMOUTH — Islandport Press has published a debut book by Lewiston native Sarah Marie Aliberti Jette, “What the Wind Can Tell You.” It is a novel for middle grades. At the center of Jette’s book is seventh-grader Isabelle Perez. Isabelle is fascinated by wind and, this year, she’s determined to win the middle school science […]