Queen Anne Books

Vermont storyteller extraordinaire Howard Frank Mosher returns to Queen Anne Books for a presentation about his latest novel, Walking to Gatlinburg.

On Sunday April 11 starting at 3:00, novelist Howard FrankMosher will be presenting his entertaining and informative slide show/talk,“Transforming History into Fiction: the Story of a Born Liar.”  Where do the boundaries lie between historyand fiction?  How far can a novelist go in appropriating and “transforming” history into fiction?  Using his personal slides, and stories from his travels to the old Erie Canal, Pennsylvanian Amish country, the battlefieldat Gettysburg, historical sectors of Richmond, and the Great Smoky and BlueRidge Mountains, Mosher will discuss his use of historical events and characters in his just-released Civil War novel, Walking to Gatlinburg.  A spart of his research for the novel, Mosher read more than 100 Civil Wa rhistories and novels – his favorites are Cold Mountain and The Killer Angels – and retraced the entire trek of the novel’s hero, Morgan Kinneson, from northern Vermont to the Smokies.

Howard Frank Mosher is the author of ten acclaimed novels and a travel memoir.  Described by the Los Angeles Times as “a combination of Ernest Hemingway, Henry David Thoreau, and Jim Harrison,” Mosher is the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters LiteratureAward, the New England Book Award, the ACLU Excellence in the Arts Award, andGuggenheim and NEA fellowships.  Three ofhis novels have been made into feature films. In a starred review, Kirkus Reviewcalls Walking to Gatlinburg an“expertly written novel . . . in which every word matters.”  Publisher’sWeekly praises the novel as “old-fashioned in the best sense . . . an engrossing tale with mass appeal.”

We've hosted Howard Frank Mosher before, so we know that he is hilarious, informative and all-around delightful!  We hope you can join us for this afternoon with a true American treasure.