Best-selling author Jacquelyn Mitchard will conclude a visit to Chattanooga today, Jan. 12, with a book signing from 3 to 4 p.m. at Star Line Books, 1467 Market St.
Mitchard is in town for a daylong Books in Common event for high school creative writing students.
Mitchard has written 12 novels for adults, including “The Deep End of the Ocean,” which became the inaugural selection of the Oprah Winfrey Book Club and a major feature film. She also has written seven young-adult novels and is the editor of a realistic YA imprint, Merit Press.
Her work has won the Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson awards, the UK’s Walkabout Prize and was short-listed for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction.
She is a professor of creative writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts and a contributing editor for More magazine.
Her latest release is “Two if by Sea.”
For more information, call the bookstore at 423-777-5629.