Nate Schweber, author of This America of Ours: Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild, will be speaking at the Holland and Terrell Libraries as part of the regional Everybody Reads program on Wednesday, Nov. 13, at 4 p.m. Copies of his book are available for check-out, and if you can’t make this event find other location and times at everybody-reads.org.
The book tells the dramatic true story of how mid-20th century literary duo Bernard and Avis Devoto fought for America’s national parks and public lands, although it got them blacklisted in the McCarthy era. One of the allies who joined the Devoto’s conservation crusade was the unknown chef Julia Child, whom Avis Devoto would make a superstar.
