Author Nancy Pearl to Speak at ULA 2005

Nancy Pearl will be speaking at the 2005 Utah Library Association Annual Conference in Ogden, Utah at a luncheon on Thursday, May 12. Nancy isthe former director of the Washington Center for the Book at the Seattle Public Library. She now writes, reviews books for both local and national publications, and speaks to library and community groups across the country. She reviews books regularly on NPR's Morning Edition and KUOW, the Seattle affiliate of National Public Radio. She is the author of Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason (Sasquatch Books, 2003); More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason (Sasquatch Books, 5/05); Now Read This: A Guide to Mainstream Fiction, 1978 - 1998 (Libraries Unlimited,
1999) and Now Read This II: A Guide to Mainstream Fiction, 1990-2001 (Libraries Unlimited, 2002). She is also the model for the Librarian Action Figure.