Tuesday, February 10, 2015 10:20 AM to 11:45 AM EST
Asheville has a rich literary history. Included among the authors with ties to the city is one of the 20th century’s greatest novelists, F. Scott Fitzgerald. (His wife, Zelda was treated at Asheville's Highland Hospital, a psychiatric facility.) Maureen Corrigan, author of So We Read On: How the Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures (Little, Brown) and Stewart O’Nan, author of West of Sunset (Viking, published January 2015), a novel of Fitzgerald’s last years in Hollywood, will share their insights and observations about the writer, his works, and his times. The conversation will be moderated by bestselling author Erik Larson, author of Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Crown, to be published in March 2015).