North Carolina author Clyde Edgerton is the featured speaker for the Friends of the Cumberland County Public Library & Information Center’s 10th Annual Author Event and Library Endowment Trust Benefit at the Cape Fear Regional Theatre.

A benefit reception to meet the author will be held at 6:00 p.m. in the Glass Block Room of Cape Fear Regional Theatre. Tickets are $85 for one, $150 for two. Heavy hors d’oeuvres and wine will be served; entrance into the presentation, and a signed copy of the author’s book The Bible Salesman are included in the reception ticket price. Call 483-7727 ext. 119 for reservations or more information.

General admission tickets are $15 and may be purchased at City Center Gallery, 112 Hay Street. All proceeds benefit the Library Endowment Trust.

Clyde Edgerton, raised in the community of Bethesda, near Durham, North Carolina, has published eight novels and a memoir, Solo, My Adventures in the Air. The Bible Salesman, his ninth novel, was published by Little, Brown in 2008. Three of his novels have been made into movies: Raney, Walking Across Egypt, and Killer Diller. The latter two are now available on DVD. Stage adaptations have been made from Raney, Walking Across Egypt, The Floatplane Notebooks, Killer Diller, and Lunch at the Piccadilly. Edgerton’s short stories and essays have been published in New York Times Magazine, Best American Short Stories, Southern Review, Oxford American, Garden & Gun and other publications. Edgerton is a musician and has performed with musicians including Jim Watson, Mike Craver, Jack King, and Matt Kendrick. Audio albums and CDs on which he has performed include Walking Across Egypt, The Devil’s Dream, The Safety Patrol,
and Lunch at the Piccadilly.

Among Edgerton’s awards are: Guggenheim Fellowship; Lyndhurst Prize; Honorary Doctorates from UNC-Asheville and St. Andrews Presbyterian College; membership in the Fellowship of Southern Writers; the North Carolina Award for Literature; and five notable book awards from the New York Times.

Edgerton is a professor of Creative Writing in the MFA program at UNC-Wilmington. He lives in Wilmington with his wife, Kristina, and their children.
 
This year’s sponsors for the author event are: The Fayetteville Observer, Kiwanis Club of Fayetteville, SYSTEL_®, Carlos & Terri Union Zukowski, Richard R. Barbaro DDS PA & Assoc., Edwin S. Deaver, Olde Fayetteville Insurance & Financial Services, Inc., Olive Glass & Marble, Anne & Bob Matlack, Paddy’s: An Irish Public House, Joyce and Ole Sorensen, Jack & Carolyn Tracy, Sharon Valentine