GPC Reads

GPC Reads

About GPC Reads
GPC Reads began in the Fall of 2010 with the intention of connecting those within the school and surrounding areas under a common love of literature, fostering an active and engaged community. GPC Reads is a book club open to students, faculty, staff, and community members with the goal of connecting our community of readers with authors so that the discussions begun in the campus-based groups can continue right on through the authors’ visits.

GPC Reads Fall 2013

Atlanta author and United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey will be the featured GPC READS author for the fall 2013 and spring 2014.

GPC Reads Fall 2012

Atlanta author Melissa Fay Greene, will be the featured GPC READS author for the fall. Ms. Greene, an Atlanta resident, will visit the Clarkston Campus for a daytime talk for students, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2013 AT 11:30 A.M.

She is the author of five books of nonfiction: Praying for Sheetrock (1991), The Temple Bombing (1996), Last Man Out (2003), There Is No Me Without You: One Woman’s Odyssey to Rescue her Country’s Children (2006), and No Biking in the House Without A Helmet (2011).

Greene’s honors include two National Book Award nominations, a National Book Critics Circle Award nomination, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, the Southern Book Critics Circle Award, the ACLU National Civil Liberties Award, the Hadassah Myrtle Wreath Award, the Salon Book Award, Elle Magazine’s Readers’ Prize, among others.

Stay tuned for more information about her visit, faculty workshops for material to teach the book, and two exciting free faculty-led programs supporting the book for students, faculty and staff.

For questions, please contact Rebecca Rakoczy at 678-891-2691, or Mary Helen Ramming at 678-891-3966.