Auburn, AL -- The Auburn Public Library invites the public to a series of author visits this spring.

Thursday, Feb. 9, 4 p.m. – Edith Powell

Edith Powell will speak about her book, "More Than Peanuts: The Unlikely Friendship of Tom Huston and George Washington Carver," a tale of the unlikely friendship between George Washington Carver and Tom Huston, along with two other peanut company executives, Bob Barry and Grady Porter. From 1924 until the end of Carver’s life, these four men sustained a professional partnership and a personal friendship built on mutual admiration, respect, trust and purpose.

Thursday, March 23, 3 p.m. – Maire Martello

Stroll back in time with Maire Martello through her book, "Stepping Out with Scott and Zelda: A Tour of the Fitzgeralds’ Montgomery," a literary tour guide that introduces the places and people that touched the Fitzgeralds’ lives during their period in Montgomery. Visit Zelda’s childhood home and neighborhood, with its ornate Victorian mansions and charming houses with gingerbread trim. Discover where Scott, as a lieutenant during World War I, first fell in love with a young Southern belle and the city that shaped her. Explore historic Old Cloverdale’s winding tree-lined streets and enjoy the Fitzgeralds’ 1931 home, now an important literary museum. Featuring photographs and period postcards from the era, "Stepping Out with Scott and Zelda" is the perfect way to ring in the new Roaring Twenties.

Tuesday, May 2, 5:30 p.m. – Virginia Wise

Wise’s fiction career began with the Amish New World series, which takes readers on a journey into the 18th century Pennsylvania wilderness and the pioneering days of the first American Amish. Each carefully researched novel brings a bygone era to life and connects readers to this forgotten time by weaving familiar Amish romances into an historic frontier setting. Currently, she is writing the Bluebird Hills series for Harlequin Love Inspired. These uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope take place in a fictional Amish community set in modern day Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The May meeting of Reader’s Review Virtual Book Club will feature the first book in Wise’s Amish New World series, “Where the Heart takes You.” In addition to her in-person visit on May 2 at 5:30 p.m., Wise will join May’s book club virtual meeting on May 16 at 5:30 p.m.

These events are free and open to the public. For more information, email [email protected].

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