Lisa (Hobbs) Birnie graces the Sunshine Coast Arts Council's spring series of author readings on Saturday, May 7 at 8 p.m. in the Doris Crowston Gallery of the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt.
Birnie's career as a journalist and author has spanned six decades and three continents. She is the author of nine books of non-fiction. Her best-known book in Canada is The Death and Life of Sue Rodriguez, although decades earlier, a journalistic coup resulted in I Saw Red China, which hit the New York Times best-seller list.
She lived in San Francisco during the heyday of the '60s counterculture, interviewing such figures as Timothy Leary, Lenny Bruce, Cesar Chavez, Dick Gregory, Saul Alinsky and many others for the San Francisco Examiner.
Released in August 2010, Birnie's latest book is In Mania's Memory, the interwoven stories of two women, one a Jewish child in Auschwitz, the other a female Nazi guard, whose lives miraculously reconnect years later. Connecting these true stories with her own experience of the war, Birnie fearlessly traverses gray areas of war, belief and memory.
This reading is free, thanks to the generosity of Canada Council for the Arts and the support of the Sunshine Coast Arts Council.
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