J. Drew Lanham Reading and Book Signing

Name: J. Drew Lanham Reading and Book Signing
Start: 2025-10-30T18:00:00-04:00
Location: 310 Keener St, Sylva, NC, United States, North Carolina 28779

Schedule

Thu, 30 Oct, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

310 Keener St, Sylva, NC, United States, North Carolina 28779 | Sylva, NC

The Jackson County Public Library and City Lights Bookstore will host an evening with J. Drew Lanham on Thursday, October 30th at 6pm. Reading & book signing will be held in the Community Room of the Jackson County Public Library.
J. Drew Lanham is the author of Joy is the Justice We Give Ourselves, Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts, and The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature. He has received a MacArthur "Genius" Grant as well as the Dan W. Lufkin Conservation Award (National Audubon Society), the Rosa Parks and Grace Lee Boggs Outstanding Service Award (North American Association for Environmental Education), and the E. O. Wilson Award for Outstanding Science in Biodiversity Conservation (Center for Biological Diversity). He served as the Poet Laureate of Edgefield, South Carolina in 2022. He is a bird watcher, poet, and Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Master Teacher at Clemson University. He lives in Seneca, South Carolina.
Books will be available for purchase at the program from City Lights Bookstore. The Jackson County Public Library is a member of the Fontana Regional Library. For more information please call the library at 828-586-2016.