Denise Kiernan, author of OBSTINATE DAUGHTERS

Schedule

Wed Jul 01 2026 at 06:30 pm to 07:30 pm

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Boswell Book Company | Milwaukee, WI

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Author Denise Kiernan appears at Boswell with her new history of the women who helped ignite the American Revolution
About this Event

Boswell Book Company presents an event with Denise Kiernan, the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls of Atomic City, who challenges the traditional mythology of the American Revolution in her new book, Obstinate Daughters: The Rebels, Writers, and Renegade Women Who Ignited the American Revolution. Kiernan brings to light the essential role women played in the fight for independence. This event cohosted by the American Geographical Society Library.

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Denise Kiernan is author of The Last Castle and The Girls of Atomic City, both instant New York Times bestsellers. Kiernan has been a finalist for the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award and the Southern Book Prize.

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Boswell Book Company, 2559 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, United States

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