This year’s annual One Author One Kirkwood author is Steven Rowley! One Author, One Kirkwood is a yearly community read for the people throughout our St. Louis community. Steven Rowley is the New York Times bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus, a Washington Post Notable Book of 2016, The Editor, named by NPR as one of the Best Books of 2019, The Guncle, a Goodreads Choice Awards finalist for 2021 Novel of the Year and winner of the 22nd Thurber Prize for American Humor, and The Celebrants, a TODAY Show Read With Jenna Book Club pick. His fiction has been published in twenty languages.

This event takes place at St. Louis Community College – Meramec Theatre. Limited quantities of Steven Rowley’s latest book, The Guncle Abroad, will be available for attendees on a first come, first serve basis. Funding for the One Author series of programs is provided by the Edward Chase Garvey Memorial Foundation.

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