Author Talks

The inspiring journey of a girl from Africa whose near-death experience sparked a dream that changed the world. When severe drought hit her village in Zimbabwe, Elizabeth Nyamayaro, then eight, had no idea that this moment of utter devastation would come to define her life purpose. Unable to move from hunger, she encountered a United […]

Join the Consulate General of Switzerland in Atlanta for a conversation with Swiss author Elisa Shua Dusapin whose first novel 'Winter in Sokcho' was recently released in the United States. Elisa has won several prizes for her novels, among them the Swiss “Robert Walser-Prize” and “Prix Alpha” and French “Prix Régine Deforges”. The conversation will […]

Global Atlanta’s Authors Amplified series highlighting Georgia voices continues with a virtual interview with Dr. Pablo Palomino, Assistant Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Mellon Faculty Fellow at Oxford College of Emory University and author of the recently released book The Invention of Latin American Music. About the Book The Invention of Latin American […]

Global Atlanta’s Authors Amplified series highlighting Georgia voices continues with a virtual interview with Dr. Jagdish N. Sheth, Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Business at Emory University Goizueta Business School, and author of the recently released book, The Global Rule of Three. About the Book: In our increasingly digital, mobile, and global world, the existing […]

A remarkable, sweeping historical novel based on the incredible true-life story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, a free woman of color who rose from slavery to become one of the wealthiest […]

Global Atlanta’s Authors Amplified series highlighting Georgia voices continues with an in-person interview with Dr. Kirk S. Bowman, professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute […]

As a teen, Anna Qu is sent by her mother to work in her family’s garment factory in Queens. At home, she is treated as a maid and suffers punishment for doing her homework at night. Her mother wants to teach her a lesson: she is Chinese, not American, and such is their tough path […]

Global Atlanta’s Authors Amplified series highlighting Georgia voices continues with an in-person interview with J.T. Way, professor of history at Georgia State University, on his recently released book, Agrotropolis: Youth, Street, and Nation in the New Urban Guatemala. Note: Space for the in-person event at the Global Atlanta offices, is limited to the first 20 guests. Tickets are $15. […]