PORT ANGELES — Pacific Northwest authors Peter Donahue and Scott Elliott will read passages from their works celebrating the Olympic Peninsula’s rich history and community at 6 p.m. today at the Port Angeles Library, 2210 S. Peabody St.
Peter Donahue is the author of the novels “Three Sides Water” (2018), “Clara and Merritt” (2010) and “Madison House” (2005), winner of the 2005 Langum Prize for American Historical Fiction, and the short story collection “The Cornelius Arms” (2000).
He is co-editor of the 2016 edition of the memoir Seven Years on the Pacific Slope and the anthologies Reading Seattle and Reading Portland.
His Retrospective Review column on Northwest literature has appeared in “Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History” since 2005. He teaches at Wenatchee Valley College at Omak and lives in Winthrop.
Scott Elliott grew up in Louisville, Ky., and in Port Townsend and Port Angeles.
He is a professor at Whitman College and founded the Walla Walla Whitman Imaginative Writing Partnership, which facilitates collaborations between Whitman writers and Walla Walla public classrooms to publish anthologies of students’ best work.
He is the author of the novels “Coiled in the Heart” and “Temple Grove.” The latter (2014) takes place in Olympic National Park and evokes this powerful landscape with suspenseful, luminous prose and was a finalist for a 2013 Washington State Book Award.
The theme for the 2018 Summer Reading Program is Libraries Rock! This summertime celebration, which encourages people of all ages to read throughout the summer, features a reading challenge and a multitude of events for all ages.
For more information about the Summer Reading Program and other events, visit www.nols.org/srp, call 360-417-8500, or email discover@nols.org.
