Author Talk with Michael Perry and RDL's 4th Annual Local Author Fair
The Rhinelander District Library is proud to present the 4th Annual Local Author Fair on Saturday, September 26th, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Rhinelander High School, featuring an Author Talk with Michael Perry from 12 p.m.-1 p.m. Sponsored by the Rhinelander District Library Foundation, this event is free and open to the public.
The Local Author Fair will take place from 10:00-11:30 a.m. in the RHS commons. Twenty-four Wisconsin authors will be there to meet new readers, sell and sign books, and chat with the public. The public is strongly encouraged to bring and use cash upon deciding to purchase from authors. Authors present will include, Lynne Carol Austin, Charity Boucher, Tom Burg, Beth Champine, Tatum Evans, Jason F. Franz, Pamela J. A. Fullerton, Cheryl Hanson/Ceone Fenn, Coyote Herron, Susan Huebner, Jacqueline Hurley, Karen Sue Kiey, Chris Kincaid, Jill Kuszmarski, Jim Landwehr, S. C. Mitchell, Jennifer Schmidig, Michael Skubal, Anastasia Stelse, Beth Stensvold, David Tank, Rachel Waldburger, and Betty White.
The keynote Author Talk with WI author Michael Perry will take place from 12:00-1:00 p.m. in the John and Dori Brown Performing Arts Center. In partnership with the Friends of the Rhinelander District Library, no tickets are required, and general admission seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Michael Perry is a New York Times bestselling author, humorist, corporate speaker, volunteer firefighter/first responder, and amateur snowplow driver. A lifelong resident of the rural Midwest, his “reflective roughneck” takes on life in Middle America have left hundreds of thousands of readers and live audiences laughing, nodding, and sometimes misty.
The author of over 25 books including Population 485, Truck: A Love Story, Forty Acres Deep, and Peaceful Persistence, Perry’s latest title is Improbable Mentors & Happy Tangents: How firefighters and poets, truckers and nurses, soldiers and singers, and other improbable individuals can show you the way in business and creativity. Perry, a registered nurse who put himself through college working as a Wyoming cowboy and a roller-skating Snoopy, produces the popular audio newsletter “Michael Perry’s Voice Mail,” performs widely as a humorist and speaker, tours with his band The Long Beds, works as a
script writer, voiceover artist and audiobook narrator, and still makes an occasional call with the local volunteer fire and rescue service.
“I grew up on the wooden end of a pitchfork,” says Perry, “so no matter what I’m doing it’s my experience as a Wisconsin farm boy and a Wyoming ranch hand that informs my approach. And none of it—whether it’s a television documentary, a song, or a book—happens unless I sit down and write. Fortunately, writing is my favorite thing, and I’m grateful for the improbable mentors and happy tangents that delivered me to this place.” Perry lives in rural Wisconsin and can be found online at www.sneezingcow.com.
These, and all Rhinelander District Library programs are free and open to the public. For more information, please call the Rhinelander District Library at 715-365-1070 or visit www.rhinelanderlibrary.org.
