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Maine Author Lewis Robinson will join the Friends of Peaks Island Library to discuss his new book, The Islanders.
Lewis Robinson is the author of the novel Water Dogs (Random House, 2009), a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, and Officer Friendly and Other Stories (HarperCollins, 2003), winner of a Whiting Award and the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award, and the forthcoming novel The Islanders (Islandport, Sept 2024). His short fiction and essays have appeared in Sports Illustrated, Tin House, The Baffler, The New York Times Book Review and on NPR’s program Selected Shorts. He has taught fiction writing at the University of Iowa, Colby College, the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA program, Phillips Academy, Stanford University’s Continuing Studies program, and is currently an associate professor at the University of Maine Farmington. He lives in Portland, Maine.
NOTE: This event occurs during the The Friends of the Peaks Island Library Annual Meeting. Friends' meeting will only occupy a few minutes of the event.
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