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Carrollton author Simon Han will discuss his debut novel in live virtual event for Allen library
‘Nights When Nothing Happened’ follows an immigrant family in Plano.
Award-winning writer Simon Han set his debut novel in Plano, along burgeoning Legacy Drive during the city’s boom years in the early 2000s.(Melissa Lukenbaugh)
Simon Han will discuss his much-lauded debut novel,
Nights When Nothing Happened, at a free, live, virtual event presented by the Allen Public Library on March 11 at 7:30 p.m. at allentx.swagit.com. Viewers can submit questions via email until 8:30 p.m. that day at liveonstage@cityofallen.org.
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Some 3,400 Black athletes played in the Negro Leagues from 1920 to 1948, but it took 100 years for Major League Baseball to recognize them as major-league-caliber players and to enter their achievements in the historical record. Author Andrea Williams loves the sport, but early on, she found herself even more curious about the business that makes it work. Her curiosity led her to discover a little-known Black American woman named Effa Manley, the co-owner and business manager of the Negro Leaguesâ Newark Eagles. Williamsâ new nonfiction middle-grades book,
Baseballâs Leading Lady: Effa Manley and the Rise and Fall of the Negro Leagues, shows Manley as a pioneer who understood the value of the leagues, while others insisted it was inferior.Â
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