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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Amy Ellis Nutt to Speak, Present Book at the Somerset County Library System of New Jersey (SCLSNJ)

About Blog Post May 29, 2018 by Pressroom

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED.

On June 2 at 2 p.m., pulitzer prize-winning journalist and author Amy Ellis Nutt will present her book, “Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family” at SCLSNJ’s Bridgewater Library branch located at 1 Vogt Drive in Bridgewater. Register for the event: sclsnj.libnet.info/somerset/event/132292.

Brief Interview with the Author What inspired you to become an author? I think I always wanted to be a writer – a poet, really. I’ve written poetry throughout my life. In college I realized that my career trajectory was not going to include professional poet, so I settled on being an academic. Never able to write my dissertation in Philosophy, I took a job at Sports Illustrated as a fact-checker. Three years in I wrote my first story, about loving baseball, and the slowest light bulb went off over my head. I could be a writer and be a journalist. It has been the perfect, and perfectly wondrous career. What will readers gain from your book? I hope readers will realize that this is actually a very ordinary family, much like their own or their neighbor’s; that differences should never interfere with the ability to understand another person; that the distance one must travel to enlightenment is sometimes just a walk across the living room. How has the public library played a role in your life? I often used the public library in Scotch Plains when I was growing up, but I practically lived at my college library at Smith. I loved everything about it – the smell of ancient books that hadn’t been cracked open in decades, fingering through a card catalog in search of one thing and then stumbling on another that I had to pursue; my own personal study carrel next to a window where I could read and also daydream. When I was at Harvard, I adored Widener Library, with its green shaded table lamps and ancient oak tables – and the view of Harvard Yard, especially at twilight. I often use libraries when I’m on an assignment in a small town just to look at their history books and maps. It’s the best way to get to know a small town’s past.
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