Dean Robbins, author of WISCONSIN IDOLS, an in-person Boswell event

Boswell Book Company presents an evening with award-winning journalist Dean Robbins. He will be visiting with his book, Wisconsin Idols: 100 Heroes Who Changed the State, the World, and Me.

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Author Dean Robbins has spent a lifetime researching and revering these prominent figures and visiting exhibits, shrines, historic homes, and other sites dedicated to their achievements. Wisconsin Idols gathers all of Robbins’s obsessions into one collection, enhanced by dozens of photographs. Taken together, these stories of musicians, activists, artists, athletes, actors, and great thinkers irrefutably establish Wisconsin as a crossroads for extraordinary people who changed the world.

"Dean Robbins's collection of brief essays is a passionate and poetic homage to one
hundred musicians, artists, thinkers, entertainers, and athletes (including me) whose
presence, however brief or long, in his beloved Wisconsin impacted the state and
him. It's both insightful and entertaining." --Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, National Basketball Association hall-of-famer

Dean Robbins is an award-winning journalist, arts critic, and children’s author. He has contributed to USA Today, the New York Daily News, the Village Voice among others. He has also served as editor of the Isthmus newspaper and On Wisconsin magazine.

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