The Boston Girl: A Lecture with Anita Diamant
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Date: November 27, 2016 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Join us for our final lecture of 2016 with New York Times Bestselling Author Anita Diamant. Step back into the 1920’s with Diamant’s main fictional character, Addie Baum and learn about life in Boston’s North End and the role that settlement work played with newly arriving immigrants. A book signing will follow in our Museum Store.
Ferreira Foods of Salem will be offering a pop-up café. Indulge in sweet treats and warm drinks.
Members: Free
Non-Members: $7.00 per person
To reserve your spot for this lecture please email groups@7gables.org, or call 978-744-0991 ext. 104
About the author:
Anita Diamant is the author of twelve books.
Her first novel, The Red Tent, published in 1997, was based on the little known biblical story of Dinah and became a word-of-mouth bestseller in the US and overseas, where it has been published in more than 25 countries. The Red Tent won the 2001 Booksense Book of the Year Award and was adapted into a two-part miniseries on Lifetime TV in 2014.
Anita Diamant’s other novels include Good Harbor, The Last Days of Dogtown, Day after Night, and her latest, The Boston Girl, published in December 2014, a NY Times national best-seller. The Boston Girl follows the story of Addie Baum, born in 1900 to immigrant parents, whose intelligence and curiosity take her through the tumultuous social changes of 20th century women: a world of short skirts, movies, celebrity culture and new opportunities her parents couldn’t imagine.
Diamant has also written six non-fiction guides to contemporary Jewish life: The New Jewish Wedding, The Jewish Baby Book, Living a Jewish Life, Choosing a Jewish Life, How to Raise a Jewish Child and Saying Kaddish. Pitching My Tent is a collection of her personal essays, drawn from twenty years worth of newspaper and magazine columns. An award-winning journalist, her articles have appeared in the Boston Globe Magazine, Real Simple, Parenting Magazine, Hadassah, Reform Judaism, Boston Magazine and Yankee Magazine.
Anita Diamant is the founding president of Mayyim Hayyim: Living Waters Community Mikveh, a 21st century reinvention of the ritual bath as a place for exploring ancient traditions and enriching contemporary Jewish life. www.mayyimhayyim.org
Anita Diamant grew up in Newark, New Jersey and Denver, Colorado. She graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a degree in comparative literature and holds a Master’s degree in English from Binghamton University. She resides in the Boston area with her husband, Jim Ball.
www.anitadiamant.com