Friday, May 15
7:30 p.m.

Thurber House celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2009, a milestone that will be honored throughout the year. During the past 25 years, Thurber House has developed year-round literary programming for all ages. One of these programs, Evenings with Authors, is a series that brings Columbus a stellar roster of novelists, journalists, historians, poets, humorists and biographers, many of them award winners and bestsellers. Thurber House's mission is to celebrate the written word for the entertainment and education of the broadest possible audience and to continue the legacy of James Thurber. The Evenings with Authors series is a commitment to that mission.

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author, Tony Horwitz, will read from his latest work, A Voyage Long and Strange, a story of history, myth, and misadventure that explores what happened in the century between Columbus' sail in 1492 and Jamestown's founding in "16-oh-something.' Embarking on his own epic trek retracing these hidden historic places, Horwitz discovered, as he did in one of his other bestsellers, Confederates in the Attic, the revealing gap between what we enshrine and what we forget.