On Thursday, September 1, the Hoosier Authors Book Club will be reading Some Memories of a Long Life by Malvina Shanklin Harlan. Like Abigail Adams, Malvina Shanklin Harlan witnessed—and gently influenced—national history from the unique perspective of a political leader’s wife. Her husband, Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan (1833–1911), played a central role […]

On Thursday, May 22, the Hoosier Authors Book Club will meet to discuss Kelly O'Dell Stanley's memoir The Artist, Ladoga, Indiana. In this memoir, the brushstrokes of the author's father, Rob O'Dell, echo long after his passing in 2017. As Kelly moves into his restored turn-of-the-century building in a small Indiana town, she finds herself wandering the […]