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OLIVIA GENTILE earned a B.A. from Harvard and an M.F.A. from Columbia. She was a fellow at the MacDowell Colony in 2006. She was an award-winning newspaper reporter in Vermont and Connecticut and now lives in New York City with her husband, the comedian and writer Andy Borowitz. She will read from Life List: A Woman’s Quest for the World’s Most Amazing Birds, her biography of Phoebe Snetsinger, an amazing woman who set the world record for bird species seen. Find more here: www.oliviagentile.com

NANCY A. NICHOLS is a journalist, editor, and broadcaster whose writing has appeared in The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times Book Review, The Harvard Business Review, and The Nation, among other publications. She will read from Lake Effect: Two Sisters and a Town’s Toxic Legacy about the environmental devastation of her industrial Illinois hometown off the coast of Lake Michigan. Find more here: www.lakeeffectthebook.com

ABOUT THE SERIES:

The KGB Nonfiction Reading Series is the city’s premier outlet for the most talented contemporary nonfiction writers working today. Books are provided by Mobile Libris. Contact co-director Kelly McMasters for more information: kellyinbrooklyn@gmail.com

About the Series: KGB Non-Fiction

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