December 15, 1998
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Historian Henry Mayer to Speak at LC Jan. 26
Henry Mayer, whose critically acclaimed book All on
Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery
(St. Martin's Press, 1998) was a 1998 National Book Award
finalist for nonfiction, will present a talk at the Library
on Tuesday, Jan. 26, at 6 p.m. in the Mumford Room, sixth
floor, Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E. Part of
the Center for the Book's "Books & Beyond" author series,
the presentation is free and open to the public.
Henry Mayer lives in the San Francisco Bay area with
his wife and children. A previous biography, A Son of
Thunder: Patrick Henry and the American Republic, was
published in 1986. His book reviews have appeared in many
newspapers and journals, and he was nominated for the
National Book Critics Circle Reviewer's Citation in 1989.
He currently is writing a biography of the photographer
Dorothea Lange.
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PR 98-196
12/15/98
ISSN 0731-3527