Thursday March 22th at 7 pm - Howard Frank Mosher, "The Great Northern Express"

Start: 03/22/2012 7:00 pm

Please join us on Thursday, March 22nd at 7 pm as we welcome back to the Bookshop Howard Frank Mosher, discussing his latest book, "The Great Northern Express".

Described by the Los Angeles Times as "a combination of Ernest Hemingway, Henry David Thoreau, and Jim Harrison," Howard Frank Mosher is the author of seven novels, including The Fall of the Year and Disappearances, and one work of nonfiction, North Country, a travel memoir. Three of his novels have been made into feature films: A Stranger in the Kingdom, which starred Martin Sheen and Ernie Hudson; Disappearances, which starred Kris Kristofferson and Billy Connolly; and Where the Rivers Flow North, which starred Rip Torn and Michael J. Fox.

Mosher has received a Guggenheim fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, the American Civil Liberties Union Award for Excellence in the Arts, and the New England Book Award.

Born in upstate New York, Howard Frank Mosher is a longtime resident of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, where he lives with Phillis, his wife of nearly four decades - the inspiration for Yellow Sage Flower Who Tells Wise Stories in The True Account. They have two children.