Sarasota County Libraries will host more than
30 local authors during National Library Week
in April, the county has announced.
Community members are invited to attend
the free celebrations that will be held at five
of the county's libraries from April 11 to April
18. Attendees will hear from local authors
and have the opportunity to talk with them
and get their autographs, a news release says.
Selby Library will host authors Ernesto
Epistola, Eric Casey, Jane Webb, Brenda
Spalding, Barbara Fleisher, Elinor Rogosin,
Lucy Tobias and Diane Adams Taylor on
Tuesday, April 15, from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., the
release notes. The library is located at 1331
First St. in Sarasota.
Jacaranda Library is scheduled to host Palmist
Myrna Lou Goldbaum on Wednesday, April
16, 12:30 p.m. The library is located at 4143
Woodmere Park Blvd. in Venice.
Gulf Gate Library will host authors J.B.
Hamilton Queen, Madonna Dries Christensen,
Adrian Doyle, Gabrielle Lennon, Edith Fiore,
Nadja Bernitt, Joan Hiatt Harlow and Fred
Gosman on Wednesday, April 16, from 12:30
to 2:30 p.m., the release continues. The library
is located in the Westfield Sarasota Square
mall at 8201 S. Tamiami Trail in Sarasota.
The Osprey Library at Historic Spanish Point
will host Barb Marvin, Lucy Tobias, Nancy
Buscher, Robert Coons, Clarissa Thomasson,
D.L. Havlin, Kate Nixon and Janet Hasselbring
on Thursday, April 17, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.,
the release continues. The library is located
at 337 N. Tamiami Trail in Osprey.
Elsie Quirk Library will host Margaret Jones,
Cornel Dolana, Dawn Penwell, Roy Ault,
Kate Nixon, Jane Gill, Gaile Harpan, Pete
Dimarcello and Thomas Goodrich on Friday,
April 18, from 2 to 4 p.m., the release adds.
The library is located at 100 W. Dearborn St.
in Englewood.
Additionally, local author Ronni Miller will
provide two Feel It! Write! writing work-
shops. The first will be on Friday, April 11, at
2 p.m. at the Gulf Gate Library; the second, on
Thursday, April 17, at 5 p.m. at the Jacaranda
Library.
For more information, call 861-5000 or visit
scgov.net.
LIBRARIES TO HOST LOCAL AUTHORS DURING NATIONAL CELEBRATION
Gulf Gate Library has been operating in space
at Westfield Sarasota Square mall while its
new facility is under construction on Curtiss
Avenue. Photo by Norman Schimmel
Sarasota News Leader April 4, 2014 Page 69
