New York Times best-selling novelist Joshilyn Jackson will appear in Dalton, Ga., on Tuesday for “An Evening With the Author” in the Davison Lecture Series.
Her presentation begins at 7 p.m. at the Dalton-Whitfield Public Library, corner of Waugh and Cappes streets. A reception in her honor, sponsored by Friends of the Library, starts at 6:30 p.m.
Jackson is a Georgia-based wife and mother who became a full-time writer after her debut novel, “Gods in Alabama,” won the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance’s 2005 Novel of the Year award and became a No. 1 BookSense pick. Jackson won Georgia Author of the Year for her second novel, “Between, Georgia,” another top BookSense pick. Her third novel, “The Girl Who Stopped Swimming,” has been shortlisted for the Townsend Prize for Fiction.
ABOUT THE SERIESThe Davison Lecture Series, named for Dalton resident Bob Davison, is designed to bring authors and lecturers to Dalton for the enjoyment and enlightenment of area citizens. Speakers over the next four months will represent such topics and genres as mystery, Southern life and culture, suspense, history, horror, fiction and American Indian life and lore. The programs are designed primarily for adults and young adults. Some of the talks are traditional with authors reading from their works. Other programs may delve more deeply into character creation, plot selection, motivation for writing or into the speaker’s particular genre. Many of the authors will have a book signing following their presentation.
Her latest, “Backseat Saints,” published in June, tells the story of Rose Mae Lolley, whose life changes dramatically when she meets an airport gypsy who shares her past and knows her future. The gypsy’s dire prediction: Ro’s handsome, violent husband is going to kill her, unless she kills him first.