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Author Event: Beth Macy* In-Person
Bestselling author, Beth Macy, will be joining us for the second annual author event sponsored by the Floyd County Library Building Fund. Macy is the author of Factory Man, Dopesick, Truevine, and Raising Lazarus. Her work has been recognized with numerous awards and she has repeatedly been on the New York Times Bestseller List. Dopesick was made into a Emmy-winning Hulu series, on which Macy served as executive producer and co-writer. Her follow-up book, Raising Lazarus, tells the story of the third wave of the crisis, driven by the introduction of new, highly addictive opioids such as fentanyl. Outsiders, underdogs and the importance of hope are key features of her work.
Copies of the author's books will be available for sale and proceeds will go to support the Floyd County Library Building Fund.
Registration is required for this event.
- Date:
- Thursday, November 14, 2024
- Time:
- 7:00pm - 9:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Branch:
- Jessie Peterman Memorial Library
- Audience:
- Adults
- Categories:
- Author Event
Beth Macy is a journalist who writes about outsiders and underdogs. Her writing has won more than two dozen national journalism awards, including a Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard, a J. Anthony Lukas Prize for Factory Man, and an L.A. Times Book Prize for Dopesick, which was made into a Peabody Award-winning series for Hulu starring Michael Keaton. All three of her books, including her second book, Truevine, were instant New York Times bestsellers.
Her fourth book with Little, Brown and Co., Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis, was published in August 2022. It is the essential follow-up to Dopesick: an account of the activists and ordinary people working to fight the crisis by saving lives, erasing the stigma of addiction, and holding those in power—from drugmakers to lawmakers—responsible.
Macy lives in Roanoke, Virginia, with her husband, Tom, and Mavis, their rescue mutt.