All Booked up Book Club to Meet the Author of Their Most Recent Assignment, Ben Montgomery

All Booked up Book Club to Meet the Author of Their Most Recent Assignment, Ben Montgomery

MOUNTAIN HOME, AR –The Donald W. Reynolds Library, Serving Baxter County, will be hosting the author of the All Booked Book Clubs’ most recent reading assignment Grandma Gatewood’s Walk, on May 25^th at 1:30 pm as a part of the Friends of the Library’s Read | Write | Ignite Literary Series.  The Book Club will meet to discuss the book via zoom on May 17 at 6:00 pm. Five copies of each book will be located behind the front desk for check out, or find a digital copy for checkout on Library2Go.

Ben grew up in Oklahoma and wanted to be a farmer before he got into journalism at Arkansas Tech University, where he played defensive back for the football team, the Wonder Boys. He worked for the Courier in Russellville, Ark., the Standard-Times in San Angelo, Texas, the Times Herald-Record in New York's Hudson River Valley, and The Tampa Tribune before joining the Tampa Bay Times, Florida's biggest and best newspaper, in 2006.

In 2010, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in local reporting and won the Dart Award and Casey Medal for a series called "For Their Own Good," about abuse at Florida's oldest reform school. He lives in Tampa with his wife, Jennifer, and three children.

The All Booked Book Club is one of the two book clubs hosted by the Donald W. Reynolds Library, Serving Baxter County, which meets virtually every month.  If you would like more information about the Libraries book clubs to visit baxtercountylibrary.org/services/book-clubs

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