Author Talk with Nate Schweber--Zoom Only

Author Nate Schweber will talk with us about his book This America of Ours: Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild. This nonfiction book was published by HarperCollins in 2022 and is about a dynamic mid-20th century literary couple who fought for America's national parks, alongside future celebrity chef Julia Child and her husband Paul  to Ansel Adams, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Alfred Knopf, Adlai Stevenson, and Wallace Stegner--while the very pillars of American democracy, embodied in free and public access to Western lands, hung in the balance. Their dramatic crusade would earn them censorship and blacklisting by Joe McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover, and Roy Cohn. Find out why we should remember Bernard and Avis DeVoto's fight to save public lands. 

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Nate Schweber is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Anthony Bourdain’s Explore Parts Unknown, and others. His conservation articles won awards from the Outdoor Writers Association of America in 2015 and 2018. In 2020, a ProPublica series he contributed to won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. A Montana native, he lives in Brooklyn, NY.