Local Author Fair (All Ages)

Saturday, October 1511:00 AM—12:30 PMBetty Strong Room (Large Event Room)Hopkinton Public Library13 Main Street, Hopkinton, MA, 01748

Come hear local authors read from their work.  There will be time to purchase and get books signed following the reading.

Kathryn Hulick is the author of two books for teens, Welcome to the Future: Robot Friends, Fusion Energy, Pet Dinosaurs, and More (Quarto, 2021) and Strange But True: 10 of the World's Greatest Mysteries Explained (Quarto, 2019). As a freelance science journalist, she contributes to Science News Explores, Muse magazine, and Front Vision. Hulick’s favorite part of writing about science is getting to speak with researchers in many different fields. Once, she spoke with an expert on parallel universes while he was shoveling snow from his driveway. Another time, she called a biologist who was out in the field in Africa, watching a herd of elephants. In addition to writing, she enjoys hiking, gardening, painting and reading. Hulick lives in Massachusetts with her husband, son and dog. Her website is http://kathrynhulick.com/ You can follow her on Twitter @khulick or on Instagram or TikTok @kathryn_hulick

An interior designer by day, Betsy Ellor lives near the beach in a house filled with color and chaos. When not at her desk, she’s usually either hiking, hunting for shells, or chasing either her son or dog. She’s the editor for the anthology Heroic Care and the author of the picture book, My Dog is NOT a Scientist which releases this spring from Yeehoo Press.

Nanette A. Kenrick is the author of Secret Letters to my Psychiatrist, a collection of stories inspired by the story of Scheherazade, the female storyteller in One Thousand and One Nights.  Kenrick has always wanted to be a writer. She worked on high school newspapers and literary magazines, and her work has also been published in local newspapers. “This book represents my first chance to be a professional book author,” she added. “I am realizing a dream.”

Robert W. Foster is a retired civil engineer. He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1955 and served in the U.S. Air Force where he completed pilot training in 1958. He practiced as a consulting engineer in the Framingham, Mass. area until his semi retirement in 1992. In retirement he continued to provide consulting services in construction review, and provided dispute resolution services while writing frequently for technical publications. He served as a president of the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping in 1990 and of the Federation Internationale de Geometre from 1998 to 2002. He has three sons and two grandsons. His wife of 47 years, Margot, died in 2001. He lives in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. Robert is the author of Decisions, Decisions, Michael's Eyes, and Jonah's Judgment.

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