West Falmouth Library is pleased to host author Jacquelyn Mitchard for a lecture on books and writing, Thursday, May 10 at 6PM. Donations are appreciated. The author’s books will be for sale at the event, courtesy of Eight Cousins Books. The library is located at 575 West Falmouth Library. For more information, call the library at 508-548-4709.

Jacquelyn Mitchard is the author of 21 books of fiction and non-fiction for adults, Young Adults, and children, with more than 3 million copies in print worldwide, in 31 languages. They include “The Deep End of the Ocean”, the first selection of the Oprah Winfrey Book Club, a #1 New York Times bestseller, and adapted for a major motion picture by Michelle Pfeiffer as well as “The Midnight Twins”, now in development by Kaleidoscope Entertainment for an HBO series.

The editor of a realistic Young Adult imprint, Merit Press, Mitchard also is the author of seven novels for young adults. Her work has won the Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson awards, as well as the UK’s Walkabout Prize and was short-listed for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. She is a professor of Creative Writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts and a contributing editor for More magazine. Mitchard grew up in Chicago, and now lives on Cape Cod with her family. Her most recent novel, "Two if By Sea" was published in 2016.