RWR Presents Beloved Historical Fiction Faves: Kristin Harmel, Nguyen Phan Que Mai, and Hazel Gaynor!

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Oct

8

3:00pm

RWR Presents Beloved Historical Fiction Faves: Kristin Harmel, Nguyen Phan Que Mai, and Hazel Gaynor!

By Robin Kall

Please join us on Thursday, October 8th at 11am EDT for one incredible historical fiction chat with three of our favorite authors! If you haven't read these books yet no worries, no spoilers! Make sure to save your seat now. If you can't join us live you can watch it afterwards ;)
Kristin Harmel is the New York Times bestselling author of a dozen novels including The Book of Lost Names, The Winemaker’s Wife, The Room on Rue Amélie, and The Sweetness of Forgetting. She is also the cofounder and cohost of the popular web series, Friends and Fiction. She lives in Orlando, Florida
Born into the Việt Nam War in 1973, Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai grew up witnessing the war’s devastation and its aftermath. She worked as a street seller and rice farmer before winning a scholarship to attend university in Australia. She is the author of eight books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in Vietnamese, and her writing has been translated and published in more than ten countries, most recently in Norton’s Inheriting the War anthology. She has been honored with the Hà Nội Writers Association’s Poetry of the Year 2010 Award, the Capital’s Literature & Arts Award, and First Prize - the Poetry Competition About 1,000 Years Hà Nội, among others. Quế Mai has an PhD in Creative Writing at Lancaster University, United Kingdom. She divides her time between Indonesia and Việt Nam.
Hazel Gaynor is an award-winning New York Times, USA Today and international bestselling author. Her 2014 debut THE GIRL WHO CAME HOME won the 2015 RNA Historical Novel of the Year award, A MEMORY OF VIOLETS was a 2015 WHSmith Fresh Talent pick, THE GIRL FROM THE SAVOY was shortlisted for the 2017 Irish Book Awards, and THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER'S DAUGHTER was shortlisted for the 2019 HWA Gold Crown Award. Hazel was selected by Library Journal as one of Ten Big Breakout Authors for 2015. Her work has been translated into fourteen languages to date. She is co-founder of creative writing events The Inspiration Project, and lives in Ireland with her husband and two children.

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