Karen Gettert Shoemaker
Karen Gettert Shoemaker,reads from and discusses the role of family stories and historic research in the writing of her historic novel.
Description
Karen Gettert Shoemaker, the author of the One Book One Nebraska 2016 selection, reads from and discusses the role of family stories and historic research in the writing of her historic novel The Meaning of Names. This presentation includes discussions of World War I, the Influenza Pandemic of 1918, the experiences of immigrants and first-generation Americans in the early 1900s, and the role of men and women in a changing society, as well as the many subjects readers bring to the conversation.
Karen Gettert Shoemaker
Title: Independent Writer & Teacher
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (402) 489-0859
City: Lincoln