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Featuring Elise Lemire, Judy Polumbaum and Katie Ives

Three Lincoln authors who have shared interests in justice, history, and the environment discuss how their Lincoln experiences have shaped their numerous writing projects.

Elise Lemire has a BA from Yale and a PhD from Rutgers. She is the author of Battle Green Vietnam: The 1971 March on Concord, Lexington, and Boston as well as Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts among other titles. A two-time fellowship recipient from the National Endowment for the Humanities, she is a Professor of Literature at Purchase College, SUNY.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Judy Polumbaum, a former newspaper reporter, magazine writer and China scholar with degrees from McGill, Columbia and Stanford universities, is a University of Iowa professor emerita of journalism and mass communication. Lincoln figures prominently in her latest book, All Available Light: The Life and Legacy of Photographer Ted Polumbaum a biography-memoir of her photojournalist-social activist father.

Katie Ives, after getting a BA at Harvard and serving in the Peace Corps, Katie Ives completed an MFA at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, studied at the Banff Mountain and Wilderness Writing Program and became the editor-in-chief of Alpinist. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Outside and Atlas Obscura, among other publications. Imaginary Peaks: The Riesenstein Hoax and Other Mountain Dreams is her first book. 

Recent works by the authors:
Imaginary Peaks by Katie Ives  Mountaineer Books, 2021
Battle Green Vietnam: The 1971 March on Concord, Lexington, and Boston  by Elise Lemire; University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021
All The Available Light: The Life and Legacy of Photographer Ted Polumbaum by Judy Polumbaum; McFarland Press, 2021

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