Minnesota Writer Alison McGhee Will Speak at the Northfield Public Library

Come to the Northfield Public Library and meet New York

Times bestselling author and Pulitzer prize nominee , Alison McGhee on Tuesday, January 7, 2014 at 7:00 PM.  Alison McGhee is a Minnesota author, and won

the Minnesota Book Award for her first novel, Rainlight, in 1999.  Since

her very successful beginning, she has written other adult novels:  Shadow

Baby and Was it Beautiful and Falling Boy. 

After writing several of her adult novels, she began writing picture

books, young adult novels, and children’s chapter books.  She has garnered awards in several categories

of her writing.  In addition to her first

Minnesota Book Award, she won the Great Lakes College Association National

Fiction Award for Rainlight.  She won the 2003 Minnesota Book Award for

her book Countdown to Kindergarten.   In 2011, she won the Theodor Seuss Geisel

Award with co-author Kate DeCamillo for Bink

and Gollie.  She is an associate

professor of creative writing at Metropolitan State University, where she

coordinates the creative writing program. 

 She will be speaking in

Northfield as part of the Southeastern Libraries Cooperation Author Tour, and

will speak at the Northfield Middle School in the morning.  McGhee will focus on her adult work at the

evening talk.  The event is free and open

to the public and is funded with funds from the Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural

Heritage Fund.