Visiting Authors

Iowa City Community School District Visiting Author: Tiffany D. Jackson

The Visiting Author program is a targeted program the ICCSD Foundation supports. In partnership with Hills Bank’s Community Reading Month, two book authors are selected each year to visit the...

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Author Visit: Ruth Harkin | Iowa City Public Library

Prairie Lights, Ice Cube Press, and the Iowa City Public Library are delighted to welcome Ruth Harkin to our space! She will talk about her new book, When My Husband Ran for President and Other...

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Author Visit: Jane Smiley | Iowa City Public Library

Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jane Smiley returns to Iowa City in support of her latest novel, Lucky, the story of a folk musician who rises to fame across our changing times.

She will be...

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Author Visit: Jerry Harrington | Thunder from the Prairie: The Life of Harold E. Hughes

Author Jerry Harrington will present on the life of former Iowa Governor and US Senator, Harold E. Hughes.

Hughes was an impactful actor within the rise of postwar American liberalism, the...

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Iowa City Community School District Visiting Author: Stacy McAnulty

The Visiting Author program is a targeted program the ICCSD Foundation supports. In partnership with Hills Bank’s Community Reading Month, two book authors are selected each year to visit the...

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Iowa City Community School District Visiting Author 2022 | Interview with Juana Martinez-Neal

Captions for this video are available in English and Spanish.
Los subtítulos de este video están disponibles en inglés y español.

Thanks to Hills Bank and Iowa City Community School...

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Hector Abad Faciolince | Author Visit | Iowa City Public Library

Hector Abad Faciolince is a Colombian novelist, journalist and public intellectual who will be visiting UI as an Ida Beam Fellow. At this event he will read from his work in Spanish and an MFA...

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Visiting Author 2021: Rita Williams Garcia | A Conversation with ICPL

The visiting author program is one of the targeted programs the ICCSD Foundation supports. In partnership with Hills Bank’s Community Reading Month, a book author is selected each year to visit...

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Make Trouble: Cecile Richards in Conversation with Monique Galpin

Recorded by March 26, 2019

Cecile Richards, former president of Planned Parenthood, and Monique Galpin, Iowa City health care advocate and and President of the UI African American Council...

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Visiting Author 2018 Bryan Collier

Recorded by Nov. 7 2018

 

This year's visiting author to Iowa City Community School District is Bryan Collier, an American writer and illustrator known best for illustrating children...

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