Note: This event was originally scheduled for Thursday, September 22 at 7:00 p.m, however, the Authors Book Club with Kate Moses is postponed due to illness.  When a new date and time is set that information will be added here.

Kate Moses will lead a discussion of C. E. Morgan’s novel The Sport of Kings. This is the second in our Authors Book Club Series, created and arranged by Kate.

The Novel

Called “Ravishing and ambitious …a serious and important novel” by The New York Times, The Sport of Kings is an American epic about race horses and racism, power and poverty, set in Kentucky horse racing country. In her second virtuoso novel, C.E. Morgan tells the story of two families across centuries, brought together by a filly named Hellsmouth, an indomitable Thoroughbred with the blood of Triple Crown winners in her veins. Already hailed as a masterpiece and a Great American Novel by reviewers for its majestic sweep, lush language and haunting moral vision, The Sport of Kings is also a gripping, compulsively readable story.

C.E. Morgan

Author of All the Living, Kentuckian, C. E. Morgan is the recipient of the 2016  Wyndham-Campbell Literature Prize, a Whiting Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, and a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Award, among other honors. She lives in Kentucky and New Hampshire.

Kate Moses

Kate Moses is the author of the novel Wintering, the memoir Cakewalk, and two anthologies of essays on motherhood, Mothers Who Think and Because I Said So. Her books have been published in 18 languages and have received a Lannan Literary Award, a Janet Heidinger Kafka Award, an American Book Award, and a Prix des Letrices de Elle, among other honors. She lives in Essex.

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