Sam Ashworth at Point Loma Nazarene University

La Playa Books is please to support the Point Loma Nazarene University's MAW Visiting Writers Series. October 2nd we welcome author Sam Ashworth to the campus. Join us online or in person.

Sam Ashworth is an award-winning novelist, journalist, professor, screenwriter, and ghostwriter. His first novel, The Death and Life of August Sweeney, "a novel about fame, food, and forensics unlike anything you've read before" was published in March 2025 and The Washington Post Book World describes the novel "Like an excellent meal, the memory of Ashworth’s debut novel will linger after it’s finished. It deserves to be savored". He attended Trinity College Dublin and received his B.A. from Columbia University and M.F.A in Fiction from George Mason University. To learn more about Sam Ashworth, please visit https://www.samuelashworth.com

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