Media Release: Harriet Scott Chessman's Book Tour Visits Western Massachusetts

DATELINE: February 21, 2017. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

AUTHOR HARRIET SCOTT CHESSMAN VISITS WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS ON NATIONAL BOOK TOUR FOR “THE LOST SKETCHBOOK OF EDGAR DEGAS”

Author Harriet Scott Chessman will do readings and book-signings of her new novelThe Lost Sketchbook of Edgar Degas at three Western Massachusetts independent booksellers as part of her 15-city national book tour with the book’s release on the Outpost19 imprint. .

Chessman is the author of the earlier novels The Beauty of Ordinary Things, Someone Not Really Her Mother, Lydia Cassatt Reading The Morning Paper, and Ohio Angels. She wrote the libretto for Jonathan Berger's opera My Lai, commissioned and performed by the Kronos Quartet. My Lai opens in New York later this year.

Harriet Scott Chessman is a graduate of Northfield Mount Hermon School, Wellesley College, and Yale University, where she received her PhD in English from Yale University. She has taught literature and creative writing at Yale University, Bread Loaf School of English, and Stanford University’s Continuing Studies Program. She lived for twelve years in Palo Alto, CA. She now lives in Connecticut.

The Western Massachusetts  tour dates include:

Tuesday, March 28 at 7PM: The Odyssey Book Shop, 9 College St, South Hadley, MA   Made possible with the support of Northfield Mount Hermon School Alumni. Harriet will be introduced by Northfield Mount Hermon Archivist Peter Weis.A portion of the proceeds from book sales will benefit the NMH Fund.  http://www.odysseybks.com/

Saturday, April 1 at 1PM: Blue Umbrella Books, 2 Main St, Westfield, MA., Harriet will be introduced by Westfield News Group Arts reporter Mark G. Auerbach  http://www.blueumbrellabooks.com/

Tuesday, April 4 at 7PM: Water Street Books, 26 Water St, Williamstown, MA  http://www.bkstr.com/williamsstore/home/en?cm_mmc=Redirect-_-VanityURL-_-waterstreet.bkstr.com-_-10283

All readings and booksignings are free and open to the public.

Dates and times are subject to change.

For information on Harriet Scott Chessman: http://harrietchessman.com.

For information on The Lost Sketchbook of Edgar Degas :http://harrietchessman.com/books-harriet-chessman/the-lost-sketchbook-of-edgar-degas/

For complete tour information: http://harrietchessman.com/events/

For information on Outpost19: http://www.outpost19.com/

-30-