Alumni & Friends Book Club Conversation with author Doug Villhard (’94)
DATE: July 18, 2024
The fifth annual Truman Alumni & Friends Book Club featured Company of Women by Doug Villhard. Set in St. Louis in the early 1900s, Company of Women is a historical fiction account of entrepreneur Eddie “EG” Wells who built a woman’s magazine empire that spanned the country until a conspiracy – all the way up to President Teddy Roosevelt – threatened to destroy it all. In the final discussion, Doug and wife Diane (also a Truman graduate, class of 1995) join to share about the creative process as well as writing and marketing for Company of Women and the sequel City of Woman
Alumni & Friends Book Club Discussion with author Joe Baumann (’07)
DATE: July 25, 2023
The Truman State University Alumni & Friends Virtual Book Club hosted two live discussions via Zoom with author Joe Baumann (’07). Joe discussed his young adult novel I Know You’re Out There Somewhere. Professor Emeritus Joe Benevento moderated both discussions.
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DATE: May 28, 2020
The inaugural Alumni and Friends Book Club featured alumna author Laura McHugh’s first novel, The Weight of Blood. “People still whisper about Lucy Dane’s mother who vanished years ago from the town of Henbane, deep in the Ozark mountains. When one of Lucy’s friends is found murdered, Lucy feels haunted by the two lost women: by the mother she never knew, and the friend she couldn’t protect.” English faculty Dr. Joe Benevento moderates the final discussion of the Alumni & Friends Book Club.
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