Save the date now for Carry the Torch Knoxville 2012! 
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
10:00a.m. – 2:00p.m. 
Knoxville Convention Center

Mission Fair 10:00a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Lunch & Program Noon – 1:00 p.m.
Book Signing 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

On May 8, 2012, Jeannette Walls, author of the book The Glass Castle will be in Knoxville as the featured speaker at a luncheon at the Knoxville Convention Center. The event will begin with a Mission Fair at 10:00 a.m. The luncheon will begin promptly at noon. Mayor Madeline Rogero will serve as Honorary Chair.

The Glass Castle has been a New York Times best-seller for more than three years and has sold 2.5 million copies in the U.S. alone.  It was named one of the “Top 10 Books of the Decade” by Amazon, and has won numerous awards including the Christopher Award, the American Library Association’s Alex Award, and the Books for Better Living Award.

“In The Glass Castle, Walls describes growing up in the desert of the American Southwest and then in a West Virginia mining town with her three siblings and the brilliant, unorthodox, irresponsible parents who manage at once to neglect them, love them, and teach them to face their fears.

The story is at times harrowing and at times hilarious as the children go without food and indoor plumbing yet are encouraged to read Shakespeare and dream of the beautiful glass house they will all one day build. Despite all her hardships, Walls develops the determination to leave West Virginia on her own at the age of sixteen, move to New York City, enroll in Barnard College and eventually become a well-known columnist for New York magazine and MSNBC.com and a television personality.”

–Keppler Speakers Bio