Harpeth Hall School
3801 Hobbs Rd.
McMurry-Frances Bond Davis Theater
Nashville, TN 37215
United States
Free and open to the public.
Last month, at least 150 people packed into Parnassus Books to support Margaret Renkl, New York Times opinion writer and former Scene contributor, who just published her first book at age 57. Renkl is the patron saint of Tennessee authors. She has worked tirelessly for decades to promote their books, offer guidance and create communities of writers across the state. Her book, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss, is a collection of essays about the natural world. She weaves meditations about Carolina wrens and rat snakes with snapshots of her family history, and common themes rise to the surface between these seemingly disparate topics. Noted author and Parnassus Books co-owner Ann Patchett says the book “has the makings of an American classic.” We have to agree. You can crowd into Harpeth Hall’s McMurry-Frances Bond Davis Theater for another reading and discussion with Renkl. You’ll see the world differently afterward — promise.
Margaret Renkl
Margaret Renkl is the author of Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South and Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, where her essays appear weekly. Her work has also appeared in Guernica, Literary Hub, Proximity, and River Teeth, among others. The founding editor of Chapter 16, a daily literary publication of Humanities Tennessee, and a graduate of Auburn University and the University of South Carolina, she lives in Nashville.
From Margaret Renkl comes an unusual, captivating portrait of a family—and of the cycles of joy and grief that inscribe human lives within the natural world.