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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Greetings!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please mark your calendars for the fourth and final installment in the TCPL’s 2011 Visiting Author Series. A press release is included below:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>###<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Chillicothe native Donald Ray Pollock will be visiting the New Philadelphia location of the Tuscarawas County Public Library System on Thursday, November 17<sup>th</sup> at 7PM to mark the fourth and final installment of the library’s 2011 Visiting Author Series. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Pollock was born in 1954 and grew up in a southern Ohio holler called Knockemstiff. A high school dropout at seventeen, he spent 32 years employed at the Mead Paper Mill in Chillicothe before deciding to pursue a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Ohio State University at age 50. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“I never really dreamed I’d get out of the mill when I started,” he told the <i>Los Angeles Times </i>in 2008. “I told my wife, ‘I’m gonna give this thing five years and try my hardest and see what happens. And then I thought, well, if I gave it five good years and nothing did happen, I can still say, when I’m laying in the nursing home or whatever, at least I gave it a shot.’”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But something did happen. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In 2008, one year before graduating from the MFA program, he made his literary debut with the critically acclaimed short-story collection, <b><i>Knockemstiff</i></b>, comprised of gritty tales set in the small Ohio town Pollock once called home. The book, which caught the attention of critics everywhere, won him the 2009/Robert Bingham Fellowship and firmly substantiated his mid-life career change. In July of this year, he released his first novel, <b><i>The Devil All the Time</i></b>, which has drawn comparisons to literary greats like John Steinbeck and Flannery O’Connor. The <i>Wall Street Journal </i>has called him “the next important voice in American fiction,” and Chuck Palahniuk has hailed his work “more engaging than any new fiction in years.” <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'>Pollock will be available to sign copies of <i>Knockemstiff </i>and <i>The Devil All the Time</i>, which will be available for purchase, after the program concludes. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;text-autospace:none'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'>Admission to the event is free. The New Philadelphia Friends of the Library will be providing refreshments. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;text-autospace:none'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'>To register to attend the program, please contact the reference desk at the New Philadelphia location of the Tuscarawas County Public Library at 330-364-4474 ext. 101. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'>###<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'>Many thanks in advance for your interest and support!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'>Best,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Andrea Legg<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Extension & Technical Services Manager<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tuscarawas County Public Library System<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>121 Fair Avenue NW<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>New Philadelphia, OH 44663<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>330-364-4474 ext 234<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:leggan@oplin.org">leggan@oplin.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.tusclibrary.org">www.tusclibrary.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.facebook.com/tusclibrary">www.facebook.com/tusclibrary</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.youtube.com/tusclibrary">www.youtube.com/tusclibrary</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.twitter.com/tusc_library">www.twitter.com/tusc_library</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>