Atascadero and San Luis Obispo public libraries welcome award-winning author Lucy Jane Bledsoe to speak at each library on Saturday, June 14 to celebrate Pride Month. The event in Atascadero is from noon to 2 p.m. and the SLO Library event is from 4 to 5 p.m.
Bledsoe’s books include both adult and children’s fiction, including Tell the Rest, No Stopping Us Now, Lava Falls, The Evolution of Love, A Thin Bright Line, and The Big Bang Symphony. Bledsoe’s books will be available to purchase, and attendees a chance to win a free book.
The author has received a Yaddo fellowship, a California Arts Council fellowship, and two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships. Her writing has won the Saturday Evening Post Great American Fiction Award, an Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction, a Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award, and an American Library Association Stonewall Book Award. Her stories have been translated into Japanese, Spanish, German, Dutch, and Chinese.
Bledsoe’s presentations are offered by the SLO County Library in partnership with American Association of University Women and Friends of the Atascadero Library. Both events are free and open to the public.