[Market] Library Annual Meeting - Ann Hood author

[Douglas Itkin]

DON”T MISS ANNUAL MEETING!

*Friends of Rochambeau Library Annual Meeting
(www.friendsofrochambeau.org)*

The officers and board of the Friends of Rochambeau Library invite you to
join us at our annual meeting.  Not a Friends member yet? Join at the
meeting.

*When:* Monday June 4, 2012 @ 7:30pm
*Where:* Meeting in the Community Room in the basement, 708 Hope Street,
Providence RI
*Cost:* Free
*Agenda:* We will also be welcoming our new board members and voting on a
change to the organization’s by-laws.

*Featured speaker:* Ann Hood, best selling author of both fiction and
non-fiction. (www.annhood.us)

*Ann Hood was born in West Warwick, Rhode Island. She grew up with stories
of her father’s travels around the world during his 20 years in the Navy.
These stories inspired her to become a flight attendant for TWA after
receiving her BA in English from the University of Rhode Island. She lived
in Boston and St. Louis before moving to New York City, where she attended
graduate school at NYU in American Literature.*

*During a furlough from TWA, she worked at the Spring Street Bookstore in
Soho and slung ribs at Tony Roma’s while writing her first novel, SOMEWHERE
OFF THE COAST OF MAINE. Soon, she was publishing essays and short stories
in The Washington Post, Mademoiselle, Redbook, Story, and many other
magazines. At various times over the years, she has had regular columns in
Self, Glamour, New Woman, and Parenting.*

*Most recently, she is the author of the bestselling novel, THE KNITTING
CIRCLE, and the memoir, COMFORT: A JOURNEY THROUGH GRIEF, which was named
one of the top ten non fiction books of 2008 by Entertainment Weekly and
was a New York Times Editor’s Choice. Her other novels include: WAITING TO
VANISH (Bantam, 1988), THREE-LEGGED HORSE (Bantam, 1989), SOMETHING BLUE
(Bantam, 1991), PLACES TO STAY THE NIGHT (Doubleday, 1993), THE PROPERTIES
OF WATER (Doubleday, 1995), and RUBY (Picador, 1998). She has also written
a memoir, DO NOT GO GENTLE: MY SEARCH FOR MIRACLES IN A CYNICAL TIME
(Picador, 1999); a book on the craft of writing, CREATING CHARACTER
EMOTIONS (Story Press, 1998); and a collection of short stories, AN
ORNITHOLOGIST’S GUIDE TO LIFE (Norton, 2004).*

*Her essays and short stories have appeared in GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, THE NEW
YORK TIMES, LADIES HOME JOURNAL, MORE, TIN HOUSE, PLOUGHSHARES, and THE
PARIS REVIEW. Ann has won a Best American Spiritual Writing Award, the Paul
Bowles Prize for Short Fiction, and two Pushcart Prizes. She now lives in
Providence, RI with her husband and their children.*

*Her new novel, THE RED THREAD, will be published in May 2010 by WW Norton.*

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