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book: News To Me - winner of MN Book Award

Laurie Hertzel, author of the book: News To Me, will talk about her adventures as a Minnesota journalist this Saturday September 22nd at 10 a.m. at the Wabasha Library. Beverages and snacks will be provided. Here is more information on Laurie:

Laurie Hertzel is Senior Editor for books at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, where she has worked for 15 years. Her journalism and short fiction have appeared in newspapers, magazines and journals across the United States and in Finland. She has reported from the Soviet Union and Cuba. She was writer-in-residence at the James Thurber House in Columbus, Ohio, and was a fellow at Duke University. Hertzel has spoken at conferences and workshops in the United States and in Bucharest, Romania, including conferences sponsored by Concordia College (Moorhead, Minn.), the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, Food Writers of America, the American Association of University Presses, the Asian American Journalism Association, the Associated Press, and many others, and served many times as faculty and speaker at the Nieman conferences on narrative editing and narrative writing at Harvard University. She has won national awards for her magazine writing, her newspaper journalism, and her short fiction. She is the author of three books, including “News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist,” winner of a 2011 Minnesota Book Award.