Author Maura Casey: The Top Five Things I Learned from Writing a Memoir

Otis Library is hosting a program with Maura Casey, author of Saving Ellen: A Memoir of Hope and Recovery, in the library’s Community Room. She will give a talk on “The Top Five Things I Learned from Writing a Memoir.” Maura has been a professional writer for 40 years (17 years at The Day, 8 years at The Hartford Courant, and 3 years as a member of The New York Times editorial board. In the course of writing Saving Ellen, she found that a memoir is a very different animal than writing an opinion column. She has put together a program to help others tackling their own memoirs save time and angst!

Free program; no registration is required. Copies of the author’s book will be available for sale and signing following the program. Otis Library was designed to accommodate people of all abilities. To request an accommodation, please contact Julie at am1lbmRlcnMgfCBvdGlzbGlicmFyeW5vcndpY2ggISBvcmc=.

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