As a part of the Read | Write | Ignite Fall Literary Series, the Baxter County Library will be hosting a virtual author visit with art history fiction novelist Stephanie Storey on Wednesday, October 14 at 1:30pm. Stephanie will share about her work, her inspiration, and her research. Attendees are encouraged to ask questions during the virtual meet and greet. To join, get the Zoom link on the calendar at baxlib.org. No registration is required.
Stephanie Storey’s debut novel Oil and Marble was hailed as “tremendously entertaining” by The New York Times, has been translated into six different languages, and is currently in development as a feature film by Pioneer Pictures. Storey is also the author of Raphael, Painter in Rome, which came out in April 2020 in conjunction with the 500th anniversary of Raphael’s death. Stephanie has previously lived in Arkansas, and is an alumna of Lakeside High School in Hot Springs. She has a degree in Fine Arts from Vanderbilt University and attended a PhD program in Art History, before leaving to get an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College, and has studied art in Italy and been on a pilgrimage to see every Michelangelo on display in Europe.
Storey has also been a national television producer for nearly twenty years in Los Angeles for shows including Alec Baldwin on ABC, Arsenio Hall for CBS, and Emmy-nominated The Writer’s Room on the Sundance Channel. When not writing novels or producing television, Storey can usually be found with husband Mike Gandolfi – an actor and Emmy-winning comedy writer – traveling the world in search of their next stories.
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