Danielle Dreilinger: The Secret History of Home Economics

Discussion & Book Signing

Please join CALS, the Women's Foundation of Arkansas and the ESSE Purse Museum for a free presentation by Danielle Dreilinger.

Please join the Central Arkansas Library System, the Women’s Foundation of Arkansas and the ESSE Purse Museum at noon on Wednesday, February 28, at the Ron Robinson Theater for a free presentation by Danielle Dreilinger on her book The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live, which will be followed by a book signing.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Danielle Dreilinger is a national rewrite editor for Gannett/USA Today Network and the author of the critically acclaimed book The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live, published by W. W. Norton. She was a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan and has worked for The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune, WGBH News and The Boston Globe. Danielle has won numerous awards for her education coverage, including the Louisiana Press Association’s best features writer honor, and has received project fellowships from the Robert B. Silvers Foundation, the Education Writers Association and the Institute for Citizens and Scholars. She began her journalism career covering the arts for several outlets, including WBUR, where she was part of the team that won the station’s first Online Journalism Award. Her work has appeared in publications ranging from The Atlantic to Ploughshares to No Depression, among (many) others. She holds a bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, from Columbia University. Before moving to North Carolina in 2021, she lived in New Orleans and Boston. She is a fan of cats, crafting, books, history and change, people who are left out, the way we live now and what makes us tick.

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