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Dan Chapman/File Photo

Dan Chapman/File Photo

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GWM’s Meet the Author features Dan Chapman

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Thursday, May 4, 2023
John Muir set out on foot in 1867 to explore the botanical wonders of the South, keeping a detailed journal of his adventures from Kentucky to Florida. One hundred and fifty years later, veteran Atlanta reporter Dan Chapman recreated Muir’s journey to see how nature has fared since Muir’s time.
Putnam High students line the edges of the room at the Live and Drive Book Fair they organized and presented March 10, at Georgia Writers Museum.

Putnam High students line the edges of the room at the Live and Drive Book Fair they organized and presented March 10, at Georgia Writers Museum.

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GWM hosts PCHS Live and Drive Book Fair

Ian Tocher
Thursday, March 30, 2023
As part of their curriculum for Project Success, a school-year-long service leadership class for seniors taught by Rebekah Esau at Putnam County High School, students conceived of, organized and presented the Live and Drive Book Fair Mar. 10, at Georgia Writers Museum (GWM) in downtown Eatonton.
Book Review: Coming Full Circle: From Jim Crow to Journalism

Book Review: Coming Full Circle: From Jim Crow to Journalism

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Book Review: Coming Full Circle: From Jim Crow to Journalism

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Thursday, March 9, 2023
Wanda Lloyd will be the “Meet the Author” presenter at noon on Tuesday, March 14 (doors open 11:30 a.m.), at Georgia Writers Museum in Eatonton. In a free-to-attend event, Lloyd will be presenting via Zoom, with registration available at georgiawritersmuseum.org.
Q&A with Stealing Ares author Kim Conrey

Q&A with Stealing Ares author Kim Conrey

Q&A with Stealing Ares author Kim Conrey

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Thursday, February 2, 2023
Kim Conrey will be Georgia Writers Museum’s “Meet the Author” presenter on Feb. 7, at 7 p.m., with doors opening at 6:30 p.m. She will be discussing Stealing Ares, her first in-a-series science-fiction book that’s already a runaway seller.
Dave McCary

Dave McCary

TV deal announced for GWM presenter’s book

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Thursday, November 17, 2022
News flash from Hollywood: Oscar winner Emma Stone and Emmy-nominated writer-director Dave McCary have launched Fruit Tree, a new film/TV production company with a two-year first-look TV deal with A24, an American independent entertainment company that specializes in film and television production.
John Pruitt, author of Tell It True: A Novel. CONTRIBUTED

John Pruitt, author of Tell It True: A Novel. CONTRIBUTED

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Pruitt tells it true at Georgia Writers Museum

Ian Tocher
Thursday, October 27, 2022
John Pruitt was the Georgia Writers Museum's (GWM's) Meet the Author speaker for October, discussing his new book, Tell it True: A Novel, a fictional story loosely based around the cold-blooded murder of African American U.S. Army Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn, a Bronze Star awarded World War II veteran.
Melissa Swindell, Georgia Writers Museum

Melissa Swindell, Georgia Writers Museum

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SWINDELL: Right here, right now: the power of place

News Staff
Thursday, September 22, 2022
The power of place. I’ve been thinking about this phrase a lot recently. It was the theme for the annual conference of the American Alliance for State and Local History, which I was invited to attend at the beginning of September. What does “power of place” mean for Georgia’s Lake Country?

GWM Book Review: ‘The Birth of the New South’

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Thursday, July 28, 2022
In 2012, the United States commemorated the Civil War sesquicentennial, the 150th anniversary of the start of the war. At the time, I was working at the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
Victoria Wilcox

Victoria Wilcox

Q&A with Doc Holliday author Victoria Wilcox

News Staff
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
Victoria Wilcox is a leading authority on Doc Holliday, the deputy with Wyatt Earp at the legendary gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. She will be the Georgia Writers Museum’s “Meet the Author” presenter at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, July 19, (doors open at 6:30 p.m.
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