January 31, 2002

Alabama native Mary Ward Brown will come to Square Books on January 31st to read from her newest collection of short stories entitled, It Wasn't All Dancing.

Set mostly in Alabama, these eleven stories' characters make their way through the the changing South, confronting the modernity of the New South while clinging to the vestiges of the Old.

Mary Ward Brown's first collection of stories, Tongues of Flame, won the 1987 PEN/Hemingway Award, the 1991 Lillian Smith Award, and the 1987 Alabama Library Association Award.

There will be a reception with refreshments beginning at 5 p.m. Reading at 5:30 p.m.

If you will be unable to attend the event but would like to reserve a signed copy, please contact us.