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Event
Homegrown Talent with Gail Benick, John Daniels, & Dick Weiss
Wednesday, November 11
10:30am
Home Grown Talent: Missouri's Own Author Panel
Gail Benick
Gail Benick is currently a professor in the humanities and social sciences at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario. Themes of migration and diaspora figure prominently in Benick's fiction and nonfiction. She explores the plight of immigrants, their transition from one world to another and asks the unavoidable, hard questions facing anyone departing from home: What shall I carry with me? What shall I leave behind? The Girl Who Was Born That Way is Benick's debut novel.
John Daniels
John Daniel's first novel is part love story, part mystery, part espionage thriller. Among the many tensions in the book, main character John Green wonders whether the problem-solving techniques that serve him so well in the medical world, will help him to repair the rifts in his relationships. Daniels has practiced internal medicine and endocrinology at Washington University School of Medicine since 1979. The son of Jewish immigrants who escaped the Holocaust, he has lived with his partner, Lance Cimarolli, for eighteen years and has three daughters.
Dick Weiss
Weiss, along with his co-author Charles Claggett, take readers on an extraordinary odyssey of hope and resilience as they examine the life of Max Starkloff. A native to St. Louis himself, Starkloff was known as an influential advocate for people with disabilities throughout the country. Weiss is an award-winning writer with more than three decades of experience at American newspapers in print and online.
Single tickets for this event are $15 each; Premier Passes (good for all JBF author events throughout the year) are $85.00.
Half-price student tickets are available only at the J's Box Office at the Staenberg Family Complex in Creve Coeur with a valid ID.
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LocationJCC Staenberg Family Complex - Arts and Education Building (View)
2 Millstone Campus Drive
St. Louis, MO 63146
United States
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| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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