Book Talk Series Continues Tonight

The Heights Libraries, and have launched a fall book talk series featuring local authors, the Cedar-Coventry Author Series.

The , a Northeast Ohio resident, discussed her most recent novel Doc.

The second talk is tonight. , assistant professor in Cleveland State University’s English Department, will discuss her book, The Last Summer of the World at 7 p.m. at .

According to a press release from the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library, the book is a fictionalized biography of the life of photographer Edward Steichen, and was a finalist for the 2008 Young Lions Award for fiction.

The “fictionalized biography of the life of photographer Edward Steichen focuses on his service during World War I doing aerial reconnaissance and the fiery disintegration of his marriage,” the library wrote.

The final author in the series, , will talk about her memoirs, Too Close to the Falls and After the Falls at 7 p.m. Nov. 2 at the Coventry Village Library. The books chronicle her experiences growing up in the 1950s and 1960s.

The series is free, but registration is required at www.heightslibrary.org.