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Meet Author Dean Bakopoulos, Support the New Sequoya Library

March 25th, 2008 Tana

Author Dean Bakopoulos will speak on Thursday, April 3 at 7 p.m. at the Sequoya Library.

Mr. Bakopoulos’ first novel, Please Don’t Come Back from the Moon, was selected by the New York Times as one of 100 Notable Books of 2005 and received “Book of the Year” awards from the New York Public Library, the Council of Wisconsin Writers, the Library of Michigan, and the Friends of American Writers. Recipient of a 2006-7 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, he is at work on a second novel to be published by Harcourt in 2008. Mr. Bakopoulos was Director of the Wisconsin Humanities Council. He has recently accepted the position of Director/Writer-in-Residence for the Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts in Mineral Point, Wisconsin.

This is one of several special neighborhood author events to benefit the new Sequoya Branch of the Madison Public Library. There will be a special preview of the design for the new library, and refreshments will be served.

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