The Library Foundation of Hillsboro

Fall 2024 Author Event

Our 2024 Author Event features Rachel Kushner, an award-winning novelist known for her hard-hitting, fast-paced, and astute novels. Her most recent book, Creation Lake, is currently on the shortlist for the prestigious Booker Prize.

Rachel Kushner
Rachel Kushner

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Enjoy a special evening of conversation and dessert with Rachel Kushner, an Oregon-born novelist known for her hard-as-nails, toughly insightful, and often fun novels. Throughout her career, Kushner has won many prizes, including the Prix Médicis, and she has been a finalist for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Folio Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Finally, she was twice a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction.

Kushner will share insights into her development and successes as a writer, discussing the evolution of her writing as well as elucidating her most recent work, Creation Lake, an espionage drama set amongst a group of French radical environmentalists. 

According to The Guardian, Kushner is “one of the century’s great American novelists,” and regarding Creation Lake, it is “her most entertaining novel yet.”

Kushner’s books have been translated into twenty-seven languages. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker and The Paris Review, and her nonfiction in Harpers and the New York Times Magazine

Let’s come together to enjoy a wonderful evening with Rachel Kushner while making a difference in our community! Purchasing a ticket today will help the Library Foundation of Hillsboro make a positive impact on readers of all ages for years to come.

WHERE: Embassy Suites, 9355 NE Tanasbourne Drive, Hillsboro, Oregon
WHEN: Friday, November 1, 2024, 7:00 – 9:00 PM

Tickets for our Special Fall 2024 Author Event will be available until October 30, 2024.

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