BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20190621T230000Z DTEND:20190622T000000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Author Margaret McMullan "Where the Angels Lived" DESCRIPTION:Author Margaret McMullan joins us at Lake Forest Book Store to present her latest book\; a journey into her ancestral past.\n\nWHERE THE ANGELS LIVED: OUR FAMILY'S STORY OF LOSS\, EXILE AND RETURN\n\n \n\nFriday\, June 21\, 2019 at 6:00 PM\n\nat Lake Forest Book Store\n\nBooks available for purchase and signing\n\nRefreshments will be served\n\nCall 847-234-4420\n\nThe moment she discovers the existence of Richard\, a long-lost relative\, at Israel's Holocaust Museum\, Margaret McMullan begins an unexpected journey of revelation and connectivity as she tirelessly researches the history of her ancestors\, the Engel de J nosis. Propelled by a Fulbright cultural exchange that sends her to teach at a Hungarian University\, Margaret\, her husband and teenage son all eagerly travel to P cs\, the land of her mother's Jewish lineage. After reaching P cs\, a Hungarian town both small and primarily Christian\, Margaret realizes right then and there how difficult her mission is going to be.\n\nA recipient of a 2010 NEA Fellowship in literature\, a 2010 Fulbright at the University of P cs in P cs\, Hungary\, and the National Author Winner of the 2011 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award\, Margaret McMullan is the author of seven award-winning novels. In 2015\, she and Phillip Lopate curated Every Father's Daughter\, an anthology of essays about fathers by great women writers such as Alice Munro\, Ann Hood\, and Jane Smiley. A 2007 Eudora Welty Visiting Writer at Millsaps College in Jackson\, Mississippi\, Margaret has taught on the summer faculty at the Stony Brook Southampton Writers Conference in Southampton\, New York\, at the Eastern Kentucky University Low-Residency MFA Program\, and at the University of Southern Indiana's Summer and Winter Ropewalk Writers Retreat. She was the Melvin Peterson Endowed Chair in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Evansville\, where she taught for 25 years. Recently she served as a faculty mentor at the Stony Brook Southampton Low-res MFA Program. She writes full time now in Pass Christian\, Mississippi X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Author Margaret McMullan joins us at Lake Forest Book Store to present her latest book\; a journey into her ancestral past.

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WHERE THE ANGELS LIVED: OUR FAMILY'\;S STORY OF LOSS\, EXILE \;AND RETURN
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Friday\, June 21\, 2019 at 6:00 PM
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at Lake Forest Book Store

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Books available for purchase and signing

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Refreshments will be served

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Call 847-234-4420

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The moment she discovers the existence of Richard\, a long-lost relative\, at Israel&rsquo\;s Holocaust Museum\, Margaret McMullan begins an unexpected journey of revelation and connectivity as she tirelessly researches the history of her ancestors\, the Engel de Já\;nosis. Propelled by a Fulbright cultural exchange that sends her to teach at a Hungarian University\, Margaret\, her husband and teenage son all eagerly travel to Pé\;cs\, the land of her mother&rsquo\;s Jewish lineage. After reaching Pé\;cs\, a Hungarian town both small and primarily Christian\, Margaret realizes right then and there how difficult her mission is going to be.

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A recipient of a 2010 NEA Fellowship in literature\, a 2010 Fulbright at the University of Pé\;cs in Pé\;cs\, Hungary\, and the National Author Winner of the 2011 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award\, Margaret McMullan is the author of seven award-winning novels. In 2015\, she and Phillip Lopate curated \;Every Father&rsquo\;s Daughter\, an anthology of essays about fathers by great women writers such as Alice Munro\, Ann Hood\, and Jane Smiley. A 2007 Eudora Welty Visiting Writer at Millsaps College in Jackson\, Mississippi\, Margaret has taught on the summer faculty at the Stony Brook Southampton Writers Conference in Southampton\, New York\, at the Eastern Kentucky University Low-Residency MFA Program\, and at the University of Southern Indiana&rsquo\;s Summer and Winter Ropewalk Writers Retreat. She was the Melvin Peterson Endowed Chair in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Evansville\, where she taught for 25 years. Recently she served as a faculty mentor at the Stony Brook Southampton Low-res MFA Program. \;She writes full time now in Pass Christian\, Mississippi

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