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Author Visit: Anders & Beverly Gyllenhaal

Jun 27, 2023 to Jun 27, 2023 7 - 8pm
  • Location: STEAM Lab

Date: Tuesday, 6/27
Time: 7-8p
Location: STEAM Lab
Ages: Teens & Adults

Jacket cover "A Wing and a Prayer" by Anders adn Beverly Gyllenhaal. Photograph of the authors and a bluebird photographTickets: FREE Online registration required. Click here to register.

Description: UDPL & the Wyncote Audubon Society are excited to welcome veteran journalists Anders and Beverly Gyllenhaal as they discuss their new book A Wing and a Prayer: The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds. The Gyllenhaals traveled more than 25,000 miles across the Americas, chronicling costly experiments, contentious politics, and new technologies to save our beloved birds from the brink of extinction. Through this compelling drama, A Wing and a Prayer offers hope and an urgent call to action: Birds are dying at an unprecedented pace. But there are encouraging breakthroughs across the hemisphere and still time to change course, if we act quickly.

Anders Gyllenhaal was an investigative reporter at The Miami Herald and executive editor at The News & Observer, The Star Tribune (Minneapolis), and The Herald. He also served as the editorial vice president for the McClatchy Company’s thirty newsrooms and 2,000 journalists. He served on the Pulitzer Prize board for nine years. Beverly Gyllenhaal was a reporter, features writer, and food editor at The News & Observer and The Miami Herald. She coauthored a syndicated column that appeared in 100 newspapers around the US and produced three books with nearly half a million copies in print.

Book sale and signing to follow, with books available for purchase.

Tickets: FREE Online registration required. Click here to register.