Writer Tom Kennedy cancels Twin Cities appearance

Author of "Falling Sideways" had planned on April visit

March 30, 2011 at 7:36PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
Author Thomas Kennedy. Photo by Laurie Hertzel
Author Thomas Kennedy. Photo by Laurie Hertzel (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Novelist Thomas Kennedy, author of the "Copehenhagen Quartet," has canceled his April appearance in the Twin Cities. Kennedy had planned to read at Magers & Quinn on April 12; it has not been rescheduled.

Kennedy's novel, "In the Company of Angels," (reviewed here in the Star Tribune), was the winner of the 2007 Eric Hoffer award. Originally from New York, Kennedy has been living in Denmark for 30 years. He teaches in the long-distance MFA program at Fairleigh-Dickinson University.

His latest novel to be published in the United States is "Falling Sideways." You can read the review here.

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Laurie Hertzel

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Freelance writer and former Star Tribune books editor Laurie Hertzel is at lauriehertzel@gmail.com.

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