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Biographer Patti Bender - Happy Landings: Emilie Loring's Life, Writing, and Wisdom In-Person/Online
- Date:
- Wednesday, May 17, 2023
- Time:
- 7:00pm - 8:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Wakelin Room
- Campus:
- Main Library
- Audience:
- Adult
- Categories:
- Author Talk
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
Emilie Baker Loring lived through two World Wars, a pandemic, the Great Depression, and deep personal loss with her optimism intact and thirty best-selling novels to show for it. Twice popular, her books sold one million copies in her lifetime and another thirty-seven million to Baby Boomers in the '60s and '70s. With a special nod to Emilie Loring's life in Wellesley Hills, Patti Bender reveals a woman who lived as she wrote, with intelligence, humor, and wisdom.
About Patti: After two decades of research and a lifetime reading and re-reading her works, Patti Bender unexpectedly found herself the world's expert on Emilie Loring. Bender left a thirty-year college teaching career to complete the author's biography and pursue writing full-time. Her website, The Emilie Loring Collection, is a gathering place for Emilie's lifetime fans.
A native of Tempe, Arizona, Bender earned a B.A. with summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa honors in English and history at Trinity University, an M.S. in leisure studies at the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. in human motor control and learning at the University of Southern California. She lives in Lawrence, Kansas.
Presented in partnership with the Wellesley Historical Society.