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JCPL welcomes New York Times bestselling author Sadeqa Johnson to Authors at JCPL.
The first 100 JCPL cardholders to register and attend will receive a copy of her new book Keeper of Lost Children.
This event will be held at The Church on Jefferson Event Center, 201 E Jefferson St, Franklin, IN 46131.
Doors: 5:30 p.m.
Event time: 6:30 p.m.
Reserve tickets through Eventbrite.
Books can be purchased through Wild Geese Bookshop.
*Please contact Kelly Staten (kstaten@jcplin.org or 317-738-9835) with accessibility or interpretive needs.
Sadeqa Johnson is a New York Times Bestselling author of five novels. Her most recent novel, The House of Eve was an instant New York Times Best Seller, Target book club pick, Reese’s Book Club selection and nominated for a NAACP Image Award. Her previous novel, Yellow Wife, was named by Oprah Magazine as “27 of 2021 Most Anticipated Winter Historical Fiction books.” Yellow Wife was also a 2021 Goodreads Choice Award finalist for historical fiction, a 2022 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy finalist, a BCALA Literary Honoree, the Library of Virginia’s Literary People’s Choice Award winner, and a Barnes & Noble book club pick in paperback.
Sadeqa’s novels have received starred reviews from Kirkus and Library Journal and have been featured in top reads lists by NBC News.com, Good Housekeeping, Christian Science Monitor, Reader’s Digest, Off The Shelf, W Magazine, Country Living, Hollywood Life, Parade, She Reads, and many others. She is a passionate public speaker and writing coach. She teaches for the MFA program at Drexel University and is a writing instructor for Story Summit. When she’s not writing or reading library books, she’s practicing yoga, meditating, hiking and dancing.
Originally from Philadelphia, Sadeqa currently lives near Richmond, Virginia, with her husband and three teenagers.
She will be joined in conversation by Angela Jackson-Brown, an award-winning writer, poet, playwright, and the Director of Creative Writing at Indiana University Bloomington.
