Amor Towles

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Amor Towles

Presented by the Poughkeepsie Public Library District
This event is currently sold out. For more information call the box office at 845.473.2072 or 845.339.6088

Mr. Towles will give a talk on his works (with a focus on The Lincoln Highway), his writing, his career, and his inspirations. This will be followed by a Q & A and a book signing in the lobby.

Award-winning bestselling novelist born and raised in the Boston area, Amor Towles graduated from Yale College and received an MA in English from Stanford University. His thesis at Stanford, a short story cycle called “The Temptations of Pleasure”, was published in 1989 in Paris Review No. 112. His new novel, The Lincoln Highway (Viking, October 5, 2021), debuted at #1 on The New York Times bestseller list and was later named #1 on Amazon’s list of the Best Books of the Year.

Mr. Towles’s first novel, Rules of Civility, which was published in 2011, was a New York Times bestseller and was named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best books of 2011. The book has been translated into over 15 languages, its French translation receiving the 2012 Prix Fitzgerald. In the fall of 2012, the novel was optioned by Lionsgate to be made into a feature film.

Mr. Towles’s second novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, which was published in 2016, has been on the New York Times bestseller list for over 52 weeks in hardcover and was named one of the best books of 2016 by the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the San Francisco Chronicle, and NPR. The book has been translated into over thirty-five languages including Russian. In the summer of 2017, the novel was optioned by Entertainment One and the British director, Tom Harper, to be made into a 6-8 hour miniseries starring Kenneth Branagh. He is also the author of the ebook You Have Arrived at Your Destination as part of Amazon’s Forward collection.

Having worked as an investment professional for over twenty years, Mr. Towles now devotes himself full time to writing in Manhattan, where he lives with his wife and two children.

Visit Amor Towles Official website

photo credit: Bill Hayes

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Date & Time

Saturday, March 19 2022
2:30 pm

Location

Bardavon
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Pricing

Tickets are FREE!
Available in-person ONLY at Bardavon Box Office or Adriance Memorial Library
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Purchase tickets for other events in person at the Bardavon Box Office, 35 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, 845.473.2072 or the UPAC Box Office, 601 Broadway, Kingston, 845.339.6088.