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Preserving American Literature for the Ages
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Preserving American Literature for the Ages
November 8 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
If you love books or if you wish to spend more time in them, you’re welcome to participate in the next Row House Forum.
There will be complimentary coffee and Stroopies, books available for purchase by Nooks, and ample time for Q&A with Stefanie.
Here’s a word from Ms. Peters:
“Most people are surprised, I think, to hear that as recently as the late 1970s there was no concept of “American Literature” being a real thing—or that at that time, some works of James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, Henry James, and William Faulkner were almost completely out of print or unavailable. This sort of neglect seems shocking today!”
Ms. Peters work centers on editing such works so that we all can enjoy them into future generations.
Stefanie Peters is an editor at Library of America in New York City, where she has edited books by writers including Louisa May Alcott, Jonathan Edwards, Ernest Gaines, Madeleine L’Engle, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Edith Wharton. She has also worked with some living authors such as Wendell Berry to preserve their legacies. She holds a master’s degree in Shakespeare from University College London and is working on a novel based on The Winter’s Tale. Her writing has been published at The Millions and The Rabbit Room. See more of her work at stefaniepeters.com.
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