Rheta Grimsley Johnson

Columnist and Author Rheta Grimsley Johnson
Coming to FLPL
May 1

Please join us for two special library events with Rheta Grimsley Johnson on
Thursday, May 1:

6:00 pm: Book Talk about Poor Man’s Provence: Finding Myself in Cajun Louisiana— This event is free and open to the public.

7:15 pm: “Dinner in the Stacks!”—The library will host a limited-seating Cajun dinner with Johnson. Tickets are $50 each. Call or visit the FLPL to purchase your tickets.

Rheta Grimsley Johnson has covered the South for over three decades as a newspaper reporter and columnist. Her reporting has won awards including the Ernie Pyle Memorial Award for human interest reporting (1983), the Headliner Award for commentary (1985), the American Society of Newspaper Editors’ Distinguished Writing Award for commentary (1982). In 1986 she was inducted into the Scripps Howard Newspapers Editorial Hall of Fame, and in 1991 Johnson was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. Syndicated today by King Features, Johnson’s column appears in about 50 papers nationwide, including the Times Daily. She is the author of several books, including America’s Faces (1987) and Good Grief: The Story of Charles M. Schulz (1989).

Johnson will be speaking at the FLPL to promote her new book Poor Man’s Provence: Finding Myself in Cajun Louisiana, a book that is both personal odyssey and good reporting, travelogue and memoir, funny and frank.

To read some of Johnson's columns, visit http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/columns/rheta/about.htm