Acclaimed authors hosting free appearances in Twin Cities

Award-winning authors Garrison Keillor and Tim O’Brien will appear at the Schwan Center in Blaine, Minnesota, this spring. Selections by Keillor and O'Brien, who were both raised in Minnesota, are featured in EMC's Mirrors & Windows: Connecting with Literature textbook program.

O’Brien is celebrating the 20th anniversary of his Vietnam novel, The Things They Carried, and will appear at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 22. Keillor will appear at 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 15. He is best known for Lake Wobegon Days and Good Poems for Hard Times, as well as for creating and hosting the public radio show, “A Prairie Home Companion.”

The events will be free and open to the public and books will be on sale. The appearance is part of the Club Book Program, which is funded by Minnesota’s Legacy Amendment Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. The program will bring acclaimed authors to libraries across the Twin Cities metropolitan area. It is planned to run at public libraries in the seven-county area from April 2010 to June 2011, and possibly beyond, according to the program’s website: http://www.clubbook.org/. For more information call 952-847-8107.

It's definitely time for a field trip!!