Author Event - Jill McCorkle

Join Orange County Public Library and Purple Crow Books for an evening with acclaimed bestselling author, Jill McCorkle, at the Main Library in Hillsborough! The Life After Life author will be reading from her new book, Old Crimes, available everywhere on January 9th. Book sales and signing will be available at the event with a percentage of the sales benefiting the Friends of the Library. Registration is required. 

Registration & Seating Note: Registration for this event will be capped at 60 with an additional 40 overflow seats going to the first waitlisted registrants. Persons holding overflow tickets will watch the event on screen from a space upstairs in the library rather than the meeting room but also have the opportunity to meet the author, purchase volumes, and have a book signed.

About the Book:

Beloved author Jill McCorkle delivers a collection of masterful stories that are as complex as novels—deeply perceptive, funny, and tragic in equal measure—about crimes large and small. Old Crimes delves into the lives of characters who hold their secrets and misdeeds close, even as the past continues to reverberate over time and across generations. And despite the characters’ yearnings for connection, they can’t seem to tell the whole truth. Profoundly moving and unforgettable, for fans of Alice Munro, Elizabeth Strout, and Lily King. (From Hachette Book Group)

About the Author:

Jill McCorkle’s first two novels were released simultaneously when she was just out of college, and the New York Times called her “a born novelist.” Since then, she has published five other novels and four collections of short stories, and her work has appeared in Best American Short Stories several times, as well as The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. Five of her books have been New York Times Notable books, and her novel, Life After Life, was a New York Times bestseller. She has received the New England Booksellers Award, the John Dos Passos Prize for Excellence in Literature, and the North Carolina Award for Literature. She has written for The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Garden and Gun, The Atlantic, and other publications. She was a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Fiction at Harvard, where she also chaired the department of creative writing. She is currently a faculty member of the Bennington College Writing Seminars and is affiliated with the MFA program at North Carolina State University. Learn more a jillmccorkle.com