Author Walter Bennett Reception and Book Signing

Emmet O’Neal Library is excited to welcome author and Tuscaloosa native Walter Bennett back to Alabama for a reception, book signing and talk at the library on Sunday, Dec. 2 at 3 p.m.

Bennett’s debut novel, Leaving Tuscaloosa, crafts a story whose characters are involved in a moral, emotional and intellectual struggle. At the heart of the novel are two men – one black and one white – who are involved in a tragic situation. Set in the Deep South in 1962, Leaving Tuscaloosa tells the story of two young men whose lives are changed forever over the course of one night. The novel was a 2010 Finalist for the prestigious Bellwether Prize for Fiction, a nationwide competition founded and administered by Barbara Kingsolver to celebrate unpublished narratives that explore issues of social change.

Bennett, a former lawyer, judge and law professor, resides in Chapel Hill, N.C. For more, call librarian Katie Moellering at 445-1118.