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Meet the Author: Jerry Haynes
Venue: Radford Public Library, Radford
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Monday, August 20, 2012
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free
Description:
Join the Radford Public Library for their free monthly Meet the Author series. This month's author is Appalachian author Jerry Haynes.

Jerry grew up in the Brush Creek section of Carroll County. After graduating from Fries High School in 1969, he attended Virginia Tech where he graduated with a Civil Engineering degree in 1977, after serving four years in the US Navy.

Although Haynes always enjoyed writing, he didn’t pen his first novel until 2006 when he self-published A Cotton Mill Town Christmas. He followed with his second book, The Cotton Mill. Both were loosely based upon his growing up in Fries. He says his first two books are 1/3 fact, 1/3 fiction, and 1/3 just plain fantasy.

Next came two historical fictions. The Saga of Caty Sage is the epic true story of five-year old Caty Sage who disappeared from her Elk Creek farm in 1792, and her family’s fifty year search for her. Mountain Justice is based upon the aftermath of the Hillsville courthouse tragedy when a Richmond journalist, after the execution of Floyd and Clyde Allen, travels to southwest Virginia to follow Floyd’s final wish for him “to find the truth.”

Haynes has also written a program entitled The All New, & Improved, You which he presents as a motivational seminar. The author lives with his wife Judy in Dublin, Virginia.

Bring your questions, enter to win copies of their books and hear about their stories.

For more information, visit: http://www.radfordpl.org/?page_id=4156 or call: 540-731-3621.