Come and meet Lauren Francis-Sharma, author of 'Til the Well Runs Dry, at the Cooper Memorial Library on Tuesday, October 13th, at 6:00 p.m. in room 108. Lauren Francis-Sharma, a child of Trinidadian immigrants, was born in New York City and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English Literature with a minor in African-American Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School. She is a former corporate attorney who now lives in the Washington, D.C., area with her husband and two children.

 'Til the Well Runs Dry, her acclaimed first novel, was chosen as an Honor Fiction Award winner by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, chosen as an O, The Oprah Magazine Summer Reading Pick, and has been lauded by the New York Times, USA Today, Essence Magazine, among other publications. Lauren has been a guest on NPR’s The Kojo Nnamdi Show, Baltimore’s Fox Morning News, the Maggie Linton Show, New England Literary Radio, Book Radio and Black Authors Network Literary Online Radio. The story of her grandmother’s journey to the United States, which is the inspiration behind her novel, was the subject of a feature article in the Washington Post in July 2014, and The Baltimore Sun in March 2015.

For more information, call 352-536-2275. This event is free to the public and is generously sponsored by the Friends of the Cooper Memorial Library and the African-American Book Club of Clermont.