Visiting Writers Series

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
Monday, March 26, 2018
7 - 8 p.m.
1867 Room
Tompkins College Center
Nonfiction reading and book signing

Please join us in welcoming visiting writer Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich for a reading and book signing of her acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir. The event will take place on Monday, March 26 in the 1867 Room of TCC, 7 - 8 p.m.

Named an Indie Next Pick and a Junior Library Guild selection, Fact of a Body was one of the most anticipated books of 2017 by Buzzfeed, Book Riot, and the Huffington Post; a must-read for May by Goodreads, Audible.com, Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple and People; long-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize and a finalist for a New England Book Award; one of the 10 best books of the year so far by Entertainment Weekly; and one of the best books of the year so far by Audible.com and Book Riot.

“This book is a marvel. The Fact of a Body is equal parts gripping and haunting and will leave you questioning whether any one story can hold the full truth.” ― Celeste Ng, author of the New York Times bestselling Everything I Never Told You.

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is the recipient of fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo, as well as a Rona Jaffe Award. She lives in Boston, where she teaches at Harvard. She is a former faculty member at Cedar Crest College.