ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS – The Atlantic Highlands Arts Council will be holding a lecture at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 16, featuring San Francisco based, British-born author Mary-Rose Hayes, who presents “Memoir into Fiction – Setting Your Characters Free, the Pitfalls and Unexpected Rewards of Turning Memoir into Fiction.”
The lecture will be held at the Paper Moon Puppet Theatre, 171 First Ave.
Hayes is the author of nine novels, most recently “What She Had To Do”, which includes the Time/Lifebestseller “Amethyst” and two political thrillers coauthored with U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.
Hayes has taught creative writing at the University of California, Berkeley, Arizona State University, Squaw Valley Community of Writers at Lake Tahoe and is currently codirector of an annual writers’ conference in the Tuscany region of Italy. Her books have been translated into16 languages.
Hayes will discuss writing her new novel “What She Had To Do;” the reason it took so long; why the characters in the book didn’t seem real until she stepped out of their lives and allowed them to develop on their own; and why, by the time she had typed “the end” for the final time, she had surprisingly come to terms with past issues of her own.
Tickets, which are limited, are $10 and available at the door or online at www.aharts.org.
