Carolyn Curry, the wife of former college and professional football star and coach Bill Curry, will be the featured speaker at the Cobb Library Foundation’s Sept. 20 “Booked for Lunch” fundraiser at the Atlanta Country Club in East Cobb.
The event takes place from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. at the ACC (500 Atlanta Country Club Drive) and tickets cost $40 (you can book your spot here).
Curry will discuss her latest book, “Sudden Death,” published on Aug. 2 by Mercer University Press. It’s set between 1966 and 1997 and features a woman lawyer who marries a college football coach, and how the couple handles the challenges of balancing their marriage and dealing with death threats that turn out to be realized.
The book is her debut novel. Curry is the author of a biography of Ella Clanton Thomas, the daughter and wife of Georgia planters who kept a diary during the Civil War years.
Curry received the Georgia Author of the Year Award from the Georgia Writers Association and that book was named as “One of the Books all Georgians” should read by the Georgia Center for the Book.
She also is the founder of a non-profit, Women Alone Together, that provides support, education and friendship to women who are single by death, divorce or choice.
Bill Curry starred at Georgia Tech and the for the Green Bay Packers and coached at Tech, Alabama, Kentucky and Georgia State.
The Cobb Library Foundation is an all-volunteer organization that raises money to assist activities and programs of the Cobb County Public Library System.
They include the system’s summer reading program, Girls Who Code, the podcast studio at the Sewell Mill Library and Cultural Center and the Bookmobile.
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