Our
first reading of the new year celebrates mystery writing and features two accomplished
masters of the genre. It is made possible by gifts to the Robert Manning Memorial
Fund.
Joanne Dobson is the author of the Professor Karen Pelletier mystery series from Doubleday and Poisoned Pen Press, the latest of which, Death Without Tenure, is just out. She won an Agatha nomination for Quieter Than Sleep, the first book in the series. In 2001 the adult readers division of the New York Library Association named her Noted Author of the Year, as the writer whose books they most enjoyed recommending to their patrons. For many years Joanne was an English Professor at Fordham University, teaching literature and creative writing. She now writes full-time and teaches writing at The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center. www.joannedobson.com
S.
J. Rozan was born and raised in the Bronx and is a life-long New Yorker. She’s
the author of nine books in the Lydia Chin/Bill Smith series, the most recent
of which is The Shanghai Moon, and of two standalones, Absent Friends
and In This Rain. She’s also the author of three dozen short stories. Her
books have won the Edgar, Nero, Shamus, Anthony, and Macavity Awards, as well
as the Japanese Maltese Falcon Award, and her stories have appeared multiple times
in Houghton Mifflin’s Annual Best American Mystery Stories as well as other
“best of the year” volumes. S. J. is currently at work on another series novel.
www.sjrozan.com
The authors will be introduced by mystery writer Stefanie Pintoff (In The Shadow of Gotham; A Curtain Falls). www.stefaniepintoff.com
Suggested
Donation: $5 ($3 for HVWC members)
Programs and events at The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center are made possible, in part, by grants from the Bydale Foundation, the David G. Taft Foundation, the Orchard Foundation, the William Robinson Foundation, and the Thendara Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts; and by the Basic Program Support Grant of Arts Westchester with funds from Westchester County Government.