Howard Frank Mosher

Phoenix Books is proud to present Howard Frank Mosher, the "Mark Twain of our times" (AP), for "Transforming History into Fiction: The Story of a Born Liar." This slideshow, talk, and reading chronicles the "making of" Howard's newest novel, Walking to Gatlinburg, a story of survival, wilderness adventure, ... (more)mystery, and love during the Civil War. The event will benefit the Essex Free Library. ($5 per person donation.)

A Civil War odyssey in the tradition of Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain and Robert Olmstead's Coal Black Horse, Mosher's latest (after On Kingdom Mountain), about a Vermont teenager's harrowing journey south to find his missing-in-action brother, is old-fashioned in the best sense of the word. Seventeen-year-old ... (more)Morgan Kinneson goes in search of his older brother, Pilgrim, a Union soldier reported MIA at Gettysburg. But first, Morgan accidentally causes the death of a runaway slave he was leading to safety in Canada. In the course of tracking down his missing brother, Morgan is pursued by slave catchers, accompanies an elephant on an Erie Canal showboat, visits the battlefield at Gettysburg, meets an escaped slave who turns out to be the dead slave's granddaughter, and gets wounded during a mountain feud before learning of Pilgrim's fate. Complicating matters is a rune stone the dead slave left to Morgan, which could compromise the security of the Underground Railroad if the slave catchers get their hands on it. The story of Morgan's rite-of-passage through an American arcadia despoiled by war and slavery is an engrossing tale with mass appeal.

You are invited to an evening with novelist Howard Mosher as he gives a reading and slide show presentaiton featuring his stunning and lyrical Civil War thriller, Walking to Gatlinburg -- a spellbinding story of survival, wilderness adventure, mystery, and love in the time of war. The slide show is called ... (more)"Transforming History into Fiction: the Story of a Born Liar." It's an account of how, over a seven-year period, Mosher wrote Walking to Gatlinburg forty to fifty times, took five lengthy research trips down South, read any number of books about the Civil War, and how he came up with the events and characters.

Meet Howard Frank Mosher and don't miss his slide presentation, Transforming History into Fiction: The Story of a Born Liar.

The Northeast Kingdom's Howard Frank Mosher will stop by to sign books at Phoenix! Come get an autographed copy of Mosher's latest novel, Walking to Gatlinburg, a story of survival, wilderness adventure, mystery, and love during the Civil War.