Loveland Loves to Read-Author Talk with Luis Alberto Urrea

Luis Alberto Urrea is a prolific and acclaimed writer who uses his life experiences to explore themes of love, loss, and triumph.

A 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction and a Guggenheim fellow, Urrea is the author of 19 books, winning numerous awards for his poetry, fiction, and essays.

Urrea's newest book, Good Night, Irene, takes as inspiration his mother's own Red Cross Club Mobile service during World War II. With its affecting and uplifting portrait of friendship and valor in harrowing circumstances, the novel powerfully demonstrates Urrea's gifts as a storyteller.

The author lives with his family in Naperville, IL, where he is a distinguished professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois--Chicago.

Loveland Loves to Read is offering a "Fast Pass" with the ticket for Priority Seating and Book Signing, allowing access to the first group to have your book signed by the author

 

Your donations have helped us bring an author like Urrea to Loveland. We anticipate needing to raise $10,000 between now and the night of this program in order to be positioned to bring yet another  award-winning author to our community.

 

 

Checks can written to FRIENDS of the Loveland Public Library with Loveland Loves to Read in the memo line. 

 

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The FRIENDS c/o Loveland Public Library

300 North Adams Avenue, Loveland, CO. 80537

 

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Donations by credit card can be made through the Friends of the Loveland Public Library's website:

Click on "How to Help" and then "Monetary Donations." In the Fund/Program dropdown box, 

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