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As part of a pre-Father’s Day event, Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist Barbara Walsh will speak about her new book, “August Gale: A Father
and Daughter’s Journey into the Storm” Friday, June 15, at the
Newington/Portsmouth Barnes & Noble from 4 to 7 p.m.
In “August Gale,” Walsh - who has interviewed killers, bad
cops, and crooked politicians in the course of her career - faces the most
challenging story of her lifetime: asking her father about his childhood pain.
In the process, she takes readers on two heartrending odysseys: one into a
deadly Newfoundland hurricane and the lives of schooner fishermen who relied on
God and the wind to carry them home. The other, into a squall stirred by a man
with many secrets, a grandfather who remained a mystery until long after his
death.
A New Hampshire native and University of New Hampshire
graduate, Walsh is also the author of “Sammy in the Sky,” a children’s book
illustrated by painter Jamie Wyeth. She will also sign her children’s book at
the event.
Walsh has worked at several newspapers during her career,
and at the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune in Lawrence, Massachusetts, she worked on a
year-long series about first-degree killer Willie Horton and Massachusetts’
flawed prison furlough system. The story won a Pulitzer Prize and affected the
1988 presidential election.
For more information, contact Barnes & Noble at its 45
Gosling Road store 603-422-7733. Read more about Barbara Walsh at
http://barbarawalsh.net.
