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Wednesday 8:30–9:15 am

Rancho Mirage Library & Observatory Quiet Until the Thaw
Alexandra Fuller
Wednesday 8:30–9:15 am
The Royals Jack London Room
Sally Bedell Smith
Wednesday 8:30–9:15 am The memoirist and journalist Alexandra Fuller had nine novels rejected before
she decided to try nonfiction. Her first attempt, a memoir of her unconventional
John Steinbeck Room
childhood as a white girl in pre-revolutionary Rhodesia, became a best-seller and
If you loved The Crown, you will love launched her career. But she never gave up on fiction, and now, after several award-
hearing Sally Bedell Smith share her winning memoirs, Fuller has published her first novel. Set on a Lakota Sioux
stories about the British royal family. reservation in South Dakota, Quiet Until the Thaw tells the story of two cousins
Her latest biography, Prince Charles: The who choose different paths to adulthood. Come hear Fuller talk about how her
Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable African childhood and new life in the American West informed her story and
Life, as well as her previous books on Queen passion for the Lakota culture. One of her many anecdotes includes participating
Elizabeth and Princess Diana, humanize in a cross-country horseback ride from Nebraska to South Dakota with several
the royal family despite their quirks and hundred Native Americans.
eccentricities. Smith gives us entrée to their
sometimes strange but always-privileged
world with great insight and a polished
sensitivity. With Patt Morrison.

“To be back among people who know Time the way
I’d known it as a child was to find myself shocked into

a completely unexpected homecoming, if home is
where your soul can settle in recognition.”
— Alexandra Fuller

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