Award-Winning Author and Poet Diane Ackerman to Discuss The Zookeeper’s Wife

Award-winning author and poet Diane Ackerman will discuss her latest book, The Zookeeper’s Wife, Wednesday, November 28, 2007 at 6:00 PM at the Tompkins County Public Library.

The Zookeeper’s Wife tells the true story of Christian Zookeeper’s at the Warsaw Zoo who rallied to save more than 300 refugees during World War II by hiding them in the cages of the zoo’s animals.

A tale of people, animals, transcendence and subversive acts of compassion, The Zookeeper’s Wife has been called “an exemplary work of scholarship and an ecstasy of imagining.”

Ackerman is best-known for her books An Alchemy of Mind and Cultivating Delight.

The discussion will take place in the Library’s Borg Warner Community Meeting Room. It is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Carrie Wheeler at (607) 272-4557 extension 248.