Home > Events and Programs > Special Events >Celebrate Authors Special Events Celebrate Authors this fall with the Detroit Public Library! Take advantage of your opportunity to engage in candid, thought-provoking dialogue with some of the most celebrated local and nationally-known talents in the industry today. Isabel Wilkerson @ Main Library Wednesday, September 15, 6:00 p.m. Join us for an enlightening discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson as she speaks about the research for her new book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration. Colson Whitehead @ Main Library Thursday, September 16, 6:00 p.m. Spend an evening with Colson Whitehead, winner of the Quality Paperback Book Club's New Voices Award and a finalist for the Ernest Hemingway/PEN Award for First Fiction. Author of: The Intuitionist (his debut novel praised for its quirky and imaginative writing and complex allegories of race); John Henry Days; Apex Hides the Hurt; and his most recent work, Sag Harbor. Beverly Jenkins @ Elmwood Park Saturday, September 18, 11:00 a.m. Bestselling author of Bring on the Blessings, returns readers to the enchanting Kansas town of Henry Adams for A Second Helping of love, laughter, and mayhem. Filling her poignant tale with a cast of eccentric characters—and setting it against the rich historical backdrop that has become her trademark—Jenkins delights from page one. Jeffery L. Schatzer @ Multiple Locations What made the beans snap? How did the berries get into a jam? What happened to the cauliflower’s head? Listen as Jeffery Schatzer reads The Runaway Garden, his tale about the night that all the plants in the garden get up and run away. The Runaway Garden is the 2010 Michigan Reads! One State, One Children's Book selection. Your little ones will love it! Tuesday, October 5 9:00 a.m. Main Library 5201 Woodward Avenue Detroit, MI 48202 313.481.1409 Tuesday, October 5 1:00 p.m. Skillman Branch 121 Gratiot Avenue Detroit, MI 48226 313.481.1850 Wednesday, October 13 10:30 a.m. Bowen Branch 3648 W. Vernor Detroit, MI 48216 313.481.1540 Wednesday, October 13 1:00 p.m. Conely Branch 4600 Martin Detroit, MI 48210 313.481.1590 Thursday, October 14 10:30 a.m. Campbell Branch 8733 W. Vernor Detroit, MI 48209 313.481.1550 Girls night out! Romance Readers’ Weekend! @ Main Library Friday, October 15, 6:30 p.m. Join authors Rochelle Alers, Lutishia Lovely (a.k.a. Zuri Day) and your fellow lovers of the romance novel for an enchanting evening of conversation and pampering. Enjoy a short massage, learn new make-up techniques, and exercise to the music at the Main Library. This event is free and open to the public. Reservations are required, please call 313.481.1339. Authors Panel Saturday, October 16, 2:00 p.m. Talk love and books with your favorite romance authors: Rochelle Alers, author of Breakaway and Heaven Sent; Beverly Jenkins, author of Captured and A Second Helping; and Lutishia Lovely, author of Heaven Forbid and Reverend Feelgood. Kevin A. Hill @ Douglass Branch Saturday, October 16, 2:00 p.m. Til Divorce Do Us Part: Why a Man Sings the Blues is the semi-autobiographical story of one man's struggle to rise above a bitter divorce to become a strong and positive father to his children. Kevin Hill is a Senior Budget Analyst for the City of Detroit and a member of Detroit Writers Galore. Shirley Harris-Slaughter @ Sherwood Forest Tuesday, October 19, 6:00 p.m. Our Lady of Victory: The Saga of an African-American Catholic Community is a must-read for anyone who cares about the history and contributions of African Americans and the Catholic Church in Detroit. It is a story of triumph, pain, and yes, even the sting of discrimination and racial disharmony as the church struggles with the issues of race and black Catholics. - Luther Keith, former Detroit News Senior Editor. Wahida Clark @ Main Library Saturday, November 6, 2:00 p.m. Hey fans of Urban Fiction! Let's welcome Wahida Clark, the Queen of Thug Love fiction to the “D” where she will be introducing her latest book The Golden Hustla. Daniel Black @ Main Library Saturday, November 13, 2:00 p.m. Join author Daniel Black in a discussion about his novels, They Tell Me of a Home and The Sacred Place, a story set in the rural south. Black is an associate professor at Clark Atlanta University, where he aims to provide an example to young Americans of the importance of self-knowledge and communal commitment. Automotive Authors Book Fair @ Skillman Saturday, November 20, 2:00 p.m. Detroit's largest gathering of automotive history writers.