Bristol Public Library is very pleased to be able to host NYT Best-selling Author Lisa Wingate as the featured event of our Adult Winter Reading Program! The event will feature a virtual Author’s presentation, a virtual book signing, Q & A and a fireside favor bag of cozy swag for the first one hundred to register (All are welcome. Priority given to Bristol residents. Favor bags must be picked up at the library). The presentation will be presented online via Zoom. A valid email account will be required to register. For assistance learning to use Zoom please ask a librarian!
The Winter Reading Program begins December 1, 2020 and continues through February 27, 2021. Patrons must be registered for the Adult Winter Reading Program to reserve a spot for Lisa Wingate, but there is no charge to register for Winter Reading or for Lisa Wingate’s Fireside Chat. Patrons may register for either by visiting or calling Bristol Public Library. It is also possible to register for Winter Reading online at bristollib.com, but patrons who register for Winter Reading online must still call or visit the library to reserve a spot for Lisa’s program. For assistance please ask a librarian!
Lisa Wingate is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Before We Were Yours, which remained on the bestseller list for fifty-four weeks in hardcover and has sold over 2 million copies. She has penned over thirty novels and coauthored a nonfiction book, Before and After with Judy Christie. Her award-winning works have been selected for state and community One Book reads throughout the country, have been published in over forty languages, and have appeared on bestseller lists worldwide.
Her work has garnered or been nominated for many awards, including the Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize, the Oklahoma Book Award, and the RT Booklovers Reviewer’s Choice Award. Her blockbuster hit, Before We Were Yours remained on the New York Times Bestseller List for over a year, was Publishers Weekly’s #3 longest running bestseller of 2017, and was voted by readers as the 2017 Goodreads Choice Award winner for historical fiction. Before We Were Yours has been a book club favorite worldwide and to date has sold over two million copies. Before and After was a finalist for the 2019 Goodreads Choice Award for Non-Fiction History and Biography.
Lisa was inspired to become a writer by a first-grade teacher who said she expected to see Lisa’s name in a magazine one day. Lisa also entertained childhood dreams of being an Olympic gymnast and winning the National Finals Rodeo but was stalled by a mental block against backflips on the balance beam and by parents who stubbornly refused to finance a rodeo career. She was lucky enough to marry into a big family of Southern tall tale enthusiasts who never let the truth get in the way of a good story. Lisa writes her novels at home in Texas where she is part of the Wingate clan of storytellers. Of all the things she treasures about being a writer, she enjoys connecting with people, both real and imaginary, the most.
More information about her novels can be found at www.lisawingate.com where you can sign up for her e-newsletter and find links to follow her on social media.