Author Jeremy B. Jones will be the guest of The Friends of the Macon County Public Library for a reading and talk of his latest book, a memoir Cipher: Decoding My Ancestor’s Scandalous Secret Diaries.
Refreshments will be served by the Friends and the authors will sign book copies that will be available for sale at the event.
Jeremy B. Jones is the author of the memoir Cipher as well as Bearwallow, which was named the 2014 Appalachian Book of the Year in nonfiction and awarded gold in memoir in the 2015 Independent Publisher Book Awards. His essays appear in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including Oxford American, Appalachian Reckoning, and the Iowa Review. Born and raised in the mountains of North Carolina, Jeremy earned his MFA from the University of Iowa and now serves as an associate professor of English at Western Carolina University.
