Hinojosa is simply put... a trailblazer. Her nearly 30-year career as an award-winning journalist includes reporting for PBS, CBS, WNBC, CNN and
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Hinojosa is simply put… a trailblazer. Her nearly 30-year career as an award-winning journalist includes reporting for PBS, CBS, WNBC, CNN and NPR and anchoring the Emmy Award winning talk show from WGBH Maria Hinojosa: One on One. She is the author of two books and has won dozens of awards including four Emmys. Her new book, Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America, Hinojosa tells the story of immigration in America through her family’s experiences and decades of reporting, painting an unflinching portrait of a country in crisis. She is also a contributor to award-winning news program CBS Sunday Morning and MSNBC.
Elin Hilderbrand is an American author widely recognized for her work in the romance genre. She wears the title of “queen of
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Elin Hilderbrand is an American author widely recognized for her work in the romance genre. She wears the title of “queen of the beach read” with pride! Hilderbrand earned a degree in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University and attended the Iowa Writers Workshop. Nantucket Island is her home and the quaint beach-filled resort town serves as a prominent character in most of her 27 published novels. She has sold roughly 10 million books, many achieving bestseller list status. Her 2019 novel, “Summer of ’69,” was a nine-week No. 1 New York Times bestseller.
The unique duo are respected friends and will be in conversation to close out FOCL’s 29th season. In 1992, Spiegelman won the
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The unique duo are respected friends and will be in conversation to close out FOCL’s 29th season. In 1992, Spiegelman won the Pulitzer Prize for his masterful Holocaust narrative Maus— which portrayed Jews as mice and Nazis as cats. Maus II continued the remarkable story of his parents’ survival of the Nazi regime and their lives later in America. He was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 2018 received the Edward MacDowell Medal, the first-ever given in comic art.
Gaiman makes a return to our series and is considered by many as one of the most celebrated writers of our time. His popular and critically acclaimed works bend genres while reaching audiences of all ages. Gaiman’s groundbreaking Sandman comics, which received nine Eisner Awards, was described by Stephen King as having turned graphic novels into “art.”