Whitley Auditorium, 4:00 p.m.
1998 Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Marlette’s editorial cartoons and comic strip Kudzu are syndicated in hundreds of newspapers worldwide. He co-wrote, with novelist Pat Conroy, the screenplay Ex, and also created a musical based on his comic strip. His first novel, The Bridge, was voted Best Book of the Year for Fiction by the Southeast Booksellers Association in 2002. It tells the intriguing history of a southern cotton mill town based on Marlette’s own stories. The movie rights were recently bought by Paramount.
Sponsored by Elon University and Alamance Reads, a program of the Friends of the Library