February Author Talks

Book covers (left to right): The Human Disease by Sabrina Sholts, Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice, I Am Nobody's Slave by Lee Hawkins.

Join us this February for 3 fascinating author talks. Each event offers the opportunity to submit questions for an author Q&A. Registration is required for the live events. All events will be recorded and uploaded to the author talk archive.


Sabrina Sholts

Biological Anthropologist and Curator of Biological Anthropology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
How We Create Pandemics, From Our Bodies to Our Beliefs | Feb. 4 at 11:00 AM


Waubgeshig Rice

Award-Winning and Bestselling Author of Moon of the Crusted Snow
Dystopian Tropes from an Indigenous Perspective | Feb. 11 at 4:00 PM


Lee Hawkins

2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Award-Winning Journalist, and Creator and Host of the Podcast What Happened in Alabama?
I Am Nobody’s Slave: How Uncovering My Family’s History Set Me Free | Feb. 18 at 11:00 AM



The Library’s online author talk series is made possible thanks to the generous funding of the Long Beach Public Library Foundation.