Kati Marton on Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America, Ariel Sabar on My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq and Sadia Shepard on The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Lost Loves, and a Sense of Home
Saturday, Nov. 14, 4:30 p.m., Auditorium Pavilion B (Parking Lot #9)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Kati Marton
Kati Marton, author of Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America (Simon & Schuster), was born in Hungary and has spent two decades writing and reporting from the United States, Europe, and the Far East. Her previous books are Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our History and The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World. “A dark, compelling narrative of secrecy and betrayal.”—Kirkus Reviews.
Ariel Sabar
Ariel Sabar is the author My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, lauded by the Washington Post as “a moving story about the near-death of an ancient language and the tiny flicker of life that remains in it.” A veteran journalist, he covered the 2008 U.S. presidential campaigns for the Christian Science Monitor. He lives with his wife and two children in Washington, D.C.
Sadia Shepard
Sadia Shepard is the author of The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Lost Loves, and a Sense of Home (Penguin). She is also a filmmaker and producer of The September Issue, a documentary portrait of Vogue magazine. She teaches creative nonfiction at Columbia University.
Schedule
| Saturday, Nov. 14, 4:30 p.m. |
Free |
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Auditorium Pavilion B (Parking Lot #9)