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PRESENTERS: Eli Cranor & Seth Wickersham
BOOKS: Mississippi Blue 42 & American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback
MODERATOR: Jay Jennings
Nationally bestselling, Edgar Award-winning author Eli Cranor lives and writes from the banks of Lake Dardanelle where he is the writer-in-residence at Arkansas Tech University in Russellville.
Seth Wickersham is a senior writer at ESPN and the New York Times bestselling author of It’s Better to Be Feared: The New England Patriots Dynasty and the Pursuit of Greatness. Focusing primarily on long-form enterprise and investigative work on the National Football League, Wickersham has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Reporting, and his stories have been anthologized in The Best American Magazine Writing, The Best American Sports Writing, and Next Wave: America’s New Generation of Great Literary Journalists, among others. He lives in Connecticut with his family.
In Mississippi Blue 42, former quarterback turned author Eli Cranor throws a glorious game winner in this series debut starring a rookie FBI agent who finds herself caught in the tangled web of a college football empire—and the bloody greed that fuels it.
The quarterback is the American equivalent of royalty: long glamorized, mythologized, and worshipped. As an inside look into a uniquely American job and a uniquely American obsession with football, American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback is a must-read for sports fans and anyone who wants to understand what the price of ambition tells us about the quest for achievement and status.
AGE GROUP: | Teens ages 12-19 | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Literature & Language | Health & Fitness |
TAGS: | SixBridgesBookFestival | RonRobinsonTheater |
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The Ron Robinson Theater is a 315-seat multi-purpose event venue. Part of the Central Arkansas Library System’s (CALS) Main Library campus, it is designed to provide programs for all ages including films, music performances, plays, readings, lectures, speakers, and children’s activities. The theater is equipped with a state-of-the-art DCI-compliant Barco digital cinema projection system and 32′ wide retractable screen; and, a versatile sound system capable of Dolby 5.1 surround audio for movies, with a CL3 digital mixing console with ample inputs for traditional music concerts.
