Special Event

"How I Quit My Day Job and Became a Killer and a Thief" with April Henry

Join us at the Sherwood Library on Thursday, February 25^th at 6:30 p.m. for a fun and informational evening with local, award-winning author April Henry.

Excerpted from www.aprilhenrymysteries.com:

Noted author Roald Dahl helped April Henry take her first step as a writer. When April was eleven, she sent the famous children's author a short story about a frog who loved penut butter. The day he received it, Dahl had lunch with the editor of an international children's magazine and read her the story. She contacted April and asked to publish it.

April's first book, Circles of Confusion, was short-listed for the Agatha Award and the Anthony Award, and was nominated for the Pacific Northwest Bookseller's Award...Other books in the Claire Montrose series are Square in the Face, Heart-Shaped Box, and Buried Diamonds...The stand-alone thriller Learning to Fly was April's fourth book...Shock Point, April's first young-adult thriller, was published by Putnam in 2006...Her next young-adult book, Torched, a thriller about a girl who goes undercover in an environmental extremist group, was published in March 2009.

April lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and daughter and writes full time. Previous jobs include working in public relations, and as a German translator, cook, housekeeper, hospital admitting clerk, life drawing model, and a brief stint as the girl who jumps out of a cake.