An Evening with Jodi Picoult, in conversation with Rainbow Rowell

Name: An Evening with Jodi Picoult, in conversation with Rainbow Rowell
Start: 2024-09-05T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Omaha Conservatory Of Music

Schedule

Thu Sep 05 2024 at 06:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Omaha Conservatory Of Music | Omaha, NE

***Tickets are on sale now!***
On Thursday, September 5th at 6:00 p.m., join Jodi Picoult, in conversation with Rainbow Rowell, to celebrate her forthcoming release, "By Any Other Name."
This ticketed event is hosted at The Omaha Conservatory of Music's beautiful Simon Concert Hall
This is a ticketed event, and each ticket will include a pre-signed copy of the book. A photo opportunity will follow the presentation, but there will be no live signing at the event.
Ticket information can be found at jodi-picoult-omaha.eventbrite.com/
Please do not call The Omaha Conservatory of Music for details or ticket info.
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Two women, centuries apart—one of whom is the real author of Shakespeare’s plays—are both forced to hide behind another name to make their voices heard.
In 1581, Emilia Bassano—like most young women of her day—is allowed no voice of her own. But as the Lord Chamberlain’s mistress, she has access to all theater in England, and finds a way to bring her work to the stage secretly. And yet, creating some of the world’s greatest dramatic masterpieces comes at great cost: by paying a man for the use of his name, she will write her own out of history.
In the present, playwright Melina Green has just written a new work inspired by the life of her Elizabethan ancestor Emilia Bassano. Although the challenges are different four hundred years later, the playing field is still not level for women in theater. Would Melina—like Emilia—be willing to forfeit her credit as author, just for a chance to see her work performed?
Told in intertwining narratives, this sweeping tale of ambition, courage, and desire asks what price each woman is willing to pay to see their work live on—even if it means they will be forgotten.
Jodi Picoult is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-nine novels, including Mad Honey (co-authored with Jennifer Finney Boylan), Wish You Were Here, The Book of Two Ways, A Spark of Light, Small Great Things, Leaving Time, and My Sister’s Keeper, and, with daughter Samantha van Leer, two young adult novels, Between the Lines and Off the Page. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband.
Rainbow Rowell is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eleanor & Park and the Simon Snow Trilogy, as well as several other award-winning novels, short stories, and comics. Rainbow lives in Omaha, Nebraska, just like most of her characters.