Speakers You May Have Missed

Our fall session of the Libraries are for Lovers series kicked off with two amazing sets of speakers!

October 22, 2009: “This love, this marriage has been a journey. Some roads we made. Others we were forced to tread.” Marita Golden

Marita Golden, author and compiler of It’s all love: Black writers on soul mates, family, and friends, met her husband Joe at a party when she was a 40-year-old single divorcee with a 12-year-old son.  She shares her story in It’s all love, along with poetry and stories from other black writers. Ms. Golden brought fellow contributor, poet Abdul ALi, to the event where they discussed their works and lives as authors, as well as how the book came to be.

November 19, 2009: “It probably helps that we fell in love long before she became a politician and I started writing books.” David O. Stewart

FOLMC Board Member David O. Stewart, an accomplished attorney and historian, spoke with his wife Nancy Floreen about their marriage, living with a writer, and raising three children in Montgomery County.  Councilmember Floreen (D-At Large) has served in state, local, and federal government for over 20 years. Both husband and wife are avid supporters of the libraries and literacy, and shared insight about their lives as authors, politicians, and a couple to their literary luncheon.