Meet Irish Poet & Author Padraig Rooney

Name: Meet Irish Poet & Author Padraig Rooney
Start: 2025-10-21T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-21T20:00:00-04:00
Location: 3000 Macon Road, Columbus, GA, Columbus, GA, United States, Georgia 31906

Schedule

Tue Oct 21 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

3000 Macon Road, Columbus, GA, Columbus, GA, United States, Georgia 31906 | Columbus, GA

rish author and poet PADRAIG ROONEY will present his book about Annemarie Schwarzenbach, the famed (some might say infamous) writer and photographer whose work challenged the Nazi regime.
In his biography "Rebel Angel: The Life and Times of Annemarie Schwarzenbach", author Rooney explores the short but impassioned life of it's title subject whose work as a writer and photographer was as uncompromising and adventurous as her personal life. Stories abound about the intermixing of her professional and personal lives which included her long and tortured relationship with Carson McCullers and a host of others in society.
This event is free and open to the public.
Presented in cooperation with the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians at Columbus State University.