IF YOU GO• Who: Nevada Barr, author of Anna Pigeon mysteries• What: Moccasin Bend Lecture Series• When: 7 p.m. Monday• Where: Tennessee Aquarium auditorium, 1 Broad St., Chattanooga• Cost: Free
A mystery writer who kills to get support for national parks is the next speaker for the final talk of this year’s Moccasin Bend Lecture Series.
Nevada Barr, the award-winning writer of 17 Anna Pigeon mysteries, said she began her professional life knowing she would merge two thing she most loves: being outdoors in national parks and writing.
The author, actress and former National Park Service ranger has done just that, and Monday she will talk about her career and how she uses her books to bring attention to parks.
“My goal is to have people go to the parks with me and fall in love with them,” Barr said last week. “We protect what we love. And we give money to what we love.”