Experience the award-winning author of "The Serpent King," "In the Wild Light," and "Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee" for an evening talk and Q&A.
Jeff Zentner is the author of New York Times Notable Books The Serpent King and In the Wild Light, as well as Goodbye Days, Rayne & Delilah’s Midnite Matinee, his debut for the adult market, Colton Gentry’s Third Act, and a YA novel in verse, Sunrise Nights, coauthored with Brittany Cavallaro. Among other honors, he has won the American Library Association's William C. Morris Award, the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award twice, the Muriel Becker Award, the International Literacy Association Award, and been longlisted for the Crook’s Corner Book Prize and twice for the Carnegie Medal. He’s a two-time Southern Book Prize finalist; and was a finalist for the Indies Choice Award. He was selected as a Publishers Weekly Flying Start and an Indies Introduce pick. His books, which have received 21 starred reviews, have been translated into fifteen languages and been featured on The Today Show, Good Morning America, and in Vanity Fair and People Magazine. Before becoming a writer, he was a musician who recorded with Iggy Pop, Nick Cave, and Debbie Harry. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Can't make it to our in-person talk with Award winning author Jeff Zentner? Join us for a virtual talk that morning, April 22 at 9 a.m. Register for the in-person Virtual Author Talk with Jeff Zentner.
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