The Kratz Center for Creative Writing at Goucher College is pleased to welcome Jennifer Weiner, the bestselling author of “In Her Shoes” and “Good in Bed,” as the Fall 2014 Visiting Author. Weiner will read from her works and sign books on Wednesday, October 8, at 8 p.m. in Hyman Forum of Goucher’s Sanford J. Ungar Athenaeum.
At 3 p.m. on the same day, there will also be a “Meet the Author” event in the Soper Room of the Julia Rogers Building. Both events are free and open to the public, but tickets must be reserved for the reading at www.goucher.edu/tickets. For more information, contact the Kratz Center at kratz@goucher.edu.
Weiner is a New York Times bestselling novelist, short story writer, essayist, and a vocal proponent of gender equality in the media. She grew up in Connecticut and graduated with a degree in English literature from Princeton University in 1991. She worked as a newspaper reporter in central Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Philadelphia until the publication of her first novel in 2001, and she has been a full-time fiction writer ever since.
Her books include Good in Bed (2001); In Her Shoes (2002), which was turned into a major motion picture starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, and Shirley MacLaine; Little Earthquakes, (2004); Goodnight Nobody (2005); the short story collection The Guy Not Taken (2006); Certain Girls (2008); Best Friends Forever, the sequel to Good in Bed (2009); Fly Away Home (2010); Then Came You (2011); and All Fall Down (2014), which is her latest novel. She was also the co-creator and executive producer of the ABC Family show “State of Georgia,” which ran during the summer of 2011.
Weiner is a frequent public speaker who has appeared on “The Today Show,” “The CBS Early Show,” “The Martha Stewart Show,” and “The Rachael Ray Show.” Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Seventeen, Redbook, Glamour, Good Housekeeping, In Style, Allure, and Elle. An active voice in social media, Time magazine named her as the author of one of its 140 Best Twitter feeds, and Forbes put her on its list of “25 Working Moms to Follow on Twitter.”
Visit www.jenniferweiner.com for more information about the author.