Wyoming Arts Council

Booklovers’ Bash Oct. 24 features noted Wyoming author Mark Spragg


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Plan to attend the Booklovers’ Bash, the largest annual fundraiser for the Laramie County Library Foundation, on Friday, October 24, 6 p.m., at Little America Hotel & Resort in Cheyenne. Featured speaker this year will be well-known author Mark Spragg.

Mark Spragg grew up working on Wyoming’s oldest dude ranch just east of Yellowstone National Park and is a graduate of the University of Wyoming.  His memoir, Where Rivers Change Direction, won the Mountains & Plains Book award for nonfiction in 2000.  He is also the author of the novelsThe Fruit of StoneAn Unfinished Life and Bone Fire.  All four were top-ten Book Sense selections and have been translated into fifteen languages.  An Unfinished Life was made into a major motion picture starring Robert Redford, Jennifer Lopez and Morgan Freeman in 2005.  Spragg and his wife Virginia co-wrote the screenplay.  The couple live in Cody, Wyoming.

There will be silent and live auction items.

Tickets must be purchased in advance.

Call 307.773.7221 for more information. Click Here to Register


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