Just as we’re lining up panelists for the 2011 Pages & Places Book Festival (to be held Saturday October 1st), the news came this week that historian Eric Foner, perhaps the leading authority on the Civil War era, won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for History.
The Pulitizer committee described Foner’s The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery (W.W. Norton & Company) as an extraordinary “examination of [Abraham] Lincoln’s changing views of slavery, bringing unforeseeable twists and a fresh sense of improbability to a familiar story.”
Misericordia University’s Brian Carso will moderate Dr. Foner’s panel, and he’ll introduce and give a preview to the panel’s discussion at Pages & Places’ newest venture, Pages & Places @ Anthology, in September.
Stay tuned for updates on Pages & Places panelists and the goings-on at P&P@A, which will celebrate its Grand (Re)Opening on First Friday May 6th — that’s just two weeks from today!