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Speaker Series

Monday, September 13 at 6:00 PM

Athenaeum Literary Award Winner: The Beauty in Breaking
Michele Harper and Lorene Cary

The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, among the nation’s oldest membership libraries, presents its 2020 Literary Award to Michele Harper’s The Beauty in Breaking. The Literary Award honors the year’s most outstanding literary work by a Philadelphia-area author or a work that is about Philadelphia. On September 13 we will celebrate her award and the beginning of our Fall Programming season. In conversation with Michele will be Philadelphia memoir writer Lorene Cary.

This event will be IN PERSON and LIVE STREAMED. Please note the two ticketing options during checkout. Live Stream attendees will be sent a link the morning of the event.

In person attendees will be required to follow any COVID-19 protocols on the day of the event.

Books will be sold by HeadHouse Books.

Free