Amy Weldon | Creature | Reading, Q&A, and Signing
Schedule
Thu, 10 Apr, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Pulpit Rock Brewing Company, 206 College Dr., Decorah IA 52101 | Decorah, IA
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Who: Amy WeldonWhat: an evening celebrating her new book, Creature: A Novel of Mary Shelley and Frankenstein
Where: Pulpit Rock Brewing
When: Thursday, 4/10 at 7:00pm
Join Amy Weldon, author of Creature: A Novel of Mary Shelley and Frankenstein, and the Dragonfly Books Staff on Thursday April 10th at 7:00pm in the Pulpit Rock Brewery events room for a reading, Q&A, and signing!
An accomplished author and educator, Amy Weldon is a professor and head of the English department at Luther College, where she also codirects the biennial Luther College Writers Festival. Raised on an Alabama farm, she holds a B.A. in English and journalism from Auburn University and a Ph.D. in nineteenth-century British literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her books include Creature: A Novel of Mary Shelley and Frankenstein, Advanced Fiction: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology, and Eldorado, Iowa: A Novel. With a passion for exploring literature’s relevance to modern life, her work spans teaching creative writing, Romanticism, and study-abroad courses like “In Frankenstein’s Footsteps.” She is currently writing A Thing of Beauty: Reading the Romantics in a World on Fire, which blends memoir and scholarship to explore the enduring lessons of Romantic-era writers.
In 1816, a nineteen-year-old single mother wrote a book that transformed our vision of birth, bodies, and who we call “monsters.” Creature: A Novel of Mary Shelley and Frankenstein is her story. From her first spark of inspiration to widowhood at age 24, through the deaths of four of her five children and her struggles to build a writing career, Creature braids Mary Shelley’s little-known life journey with that of her most famous character: Victor Frankenstein’s half-human Creature, who shadows her in alternating chapters as conscience, criminal, and friend. Traveling from London to Italy and into our own technological future, Creature blends historical realism and literary magic to show how a bookish, haunted girl learns to confront her monsters by bringing them to life.
This event is part of Dragonfly Books and the Oneota Valley Literary Foundation’s robust author event series, which brings top-notch writers of all genres to Northeast Iowa to lead in conversations about literature and writing. To learn more about this event and other events with Dragonfly Books, visit www.dragonflybooks.com.
If you find that you can't make it to the event but would still like to purchase any books from this author talk, give Dragonfly Books a call at 563-382-4275. Our staff will be glad to reserve a book, have it autographed for you, and shipped out as needed.
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