Southwest Baptist
University News Release
Contact:
Charlotte Marsch, Director of Marketing and Communications
(417)
328-1803 / cmarsch@sbuniv.edu
Robin Jones Gunn to
speak at SBU April 29
BOLIVAR, Mo. — Award-winning
Christian author Robin Jones Gunn is speaking from 6 to 7 p.m. Monday, April
29, in the Davis-Newport Theatre in the Jester Learning and Performance Center
at Southwest Baptist University, Bolivar, as part of the Barnett-Padgett
Literary Artist Series. A book signing will be afterwards.
“Robin Jones Gunn’s
books introduced me to a world that I often escaped into as I grew up,” SBU
senior Lauren Knutson said. “I am very excited about the opportunity to meet
Gunn and thank her for creating good friends who stuck with me through
adolescence and taught me how to live according to my faith.”
Gunn
is the author of the Sisterchicks® novels and several series — including Christy
Miller, Sierra Jensen, Glenbrooke and Katie Weldon — for young adults. She has sold
more than 5 million copies of her 82 books since her first book was published
in 1988.
She
began writing Christian young adult novels when she became concerned about what
she saw girls in her church youth group reading. The girls then gave her ideas
of what to write about, and she spent many mornings, beginning at 3 a.m.,
writing her books.
Admission is free and
open to the public. The Jester Learning and Performance Center is the first
building on the right after entering the campus from Springfield Avenue.
For
more information, contact Dr. Holly Hill-Stanford, professor of English and
director of the Barnett-Padgett Literary Artist Series, at (417) 328-1682.
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