ROXARTS – ROXARTS auction + benefit 2017; Rock Around the Clock
Auction Ends: May 7, 2016 09:00 PM EDT

Unique Experiences

A Gathering for 20 with Bestselling Author, Paula McClain

Item Number
257
Estimated Value
400 USD

Live Event Item

This is a Live Event Only item.

Item Description

Invite 20 of your closest book-loving friends to this intimate in-home (yours or someone else's) event!  Paula McClain, author extraordinaire, will arrive with a signed book for every one of your guests and lead a discussion about books, the writing life, and living an inspired life. Two hours of pure delight with our local literary treasure and Roxboro parent!  

This purchase also includes a case of wine and a beautiful local cheese plate from Farm Share Foods.  http://www.farmshareohio.com

Paula McLain is the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Paris Wife. She now introduces her latest title, Circling the Sun

Paula McLain was born in Fresno, California in 1965. After being abandoned by both parents, she and her two sisters became wards of the CaliforniaCourt System, moving in and out of various foster homes for the next fourteen years. When she aged out of the system, she supported herself by working as a nurses aid in a convalescent hospital, a pizza delivery girl, an auto-plant worker, a cocktail waitress–before discovering she could (and very much wanted to) write. She received her MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan in 1996.

She is the author of The Paris Wife, a New York Times and international bestseller, which has been published in thirty-four languages. The recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, the Cleveland Arts Prize, the Ohio Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, she is also the author of two collections of poetry; a memoir, Like Family, Growing up in Other People’s Houses; and a first novel, A Ticket to Ride. She lives with her family in Cleveland.