Join Candela Gallery and Fountain Bookstore in welcoming Dean King into the space for the release of "Guardians of the Valley."
A new Dean King book is reason for a BIG celebration! We will see you at the gallery for a band, refreshments, and special guests!
About Guardians of the Valley:
The dramatic and uplifting story of legendary outdoorsman and conservationist John Muir’s journey to become the man who saved Yosemite—from the author of the bestselling Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival.
About Dean King:
Dean King is an award-winning author of ten nonfiction books. He crossed the Sahara on camels and in Land Rovers while researching Skeletons on the Zahara, trekked the Long March trail in the mountains of Western China for Unbound, and was shot at while researching The Feud in Appalachia. His writing has appeared in Granta, Garden & Gun, National Geographic Adventure, Outside, Travel & Leisure, New York magazine, and The New York Times.
He is the chief storyteller in two History Channel documentaries and is a producer of its nonfiction series Hatfields & McCoys: White Lightning. An internationally known speaker, King has also appeared on NPR’s Talk of the Nation, ABC World News Tonight, PBS American Experience, BBC Radio, and TEDx. He is a partner of Gum Street Productions, which is currently developing a feature documentary for Netflix.
About our special guest authors:
Poet Laureate of Virginia 2014-2016, Ron Smith is the author of Running Again in Hollywood Cemetery, judged by Margaret Atwood “a close runner-up” for the National Poetry Series Open Competition, a revised and enhanced edition of which appeared in 2020. Ron’s other books have been published by LSU Press, including Moon Road, Its Ghostly Workshop, and The Humility of the Brutes. A frequent presenter at international conferences, in 2018, Ron was the “Featured Poet” at the International Hemingway Conference in Paris, where he also read new work to a gathering of modernist scholars in the Salon Gustave Eiffel on the Eiffel Tower. In June 2022, he was one of two “Featured Poets” at Université Caen Normandie, for its Modernist Structures conference.
James A. McLaughlin is the acclaimed author of Bearksin, winner of the Edgar Award. A native of Virginia, he now lives in Utah, at the base of the Wasatch Mountains, with his wife.