Stories about local arts and culture events and profiles about local creatives.
Six Weeks for Boat Mail is the second in the WWII era trilogy, written by local author Bonnie Park and based on years of correspondence between her parents. “To me,” says Park, “these letters are their most significant legacy. I am grateful for the opportunity to champion this period in history and share their unusual story.”
Read MoreDalton Gackle, Research, Digital Services, and Social Media Coordinator at the Park City History Museum, has created a book that outlines Park City’s mining history and significant events from the town’s past.
Read MoreA part time Parkite for seventeen years, as of May 2021, author Art Bell and his wife are now full time locals. After retiring from a career as a media executive best known for creating, building, and managing successful cable television channels and prior to moving from Connecticut, Bell wrote a memoir chronicling his experiences at Comedy Central entitled, Constant Comedy: How I Started Comedy Central and Lost my Sense of Humor.
Read More“The restaurant industry in Park City, Utah, can be murder” states the pitch for local author Zack Matheson’s latest book Recipe for Chaos set right here in the community Matheson has called home, off and on since 2004.
Read MoreFor years, Joe Totten, utilized his writing skills during his advertising career and most recently, to create his debut novel, The Law of Capture. Joe and his family moved to Park City in 1996. He eventually joined a writer’s group and got more serious about his personal writing projects. In 2016, while the book was still in process, he won the State of Utah's Writing Contest for his short story “The Starling Killers”.
Read MoreA Parkite for nearly 50 years, Jim Doilney has been an educator, builder, businessman, politician and now, thanks to his experiences as an adventurer and cancer survivor, he has become an author. Riding the Scalpel is Jim’s way of sharing his 20-year saga of not allowing a cancer diagnosis put an end to his globetrotting adventures.
Read MoreMarianne C. Bohr, is one of our newest local authors. She retired in 2016 from a career in publishing and teaching middle school French and moved here from Maryland soon after.
Being skiers and hikers, she and husband Joe, love that Park City is a real town and not just a ski resort. “We also love that the international airport is so close for our frequent getaways,” explains Marianne. “Our two adult children are in LA and DC and so we chose somewhere in between they would appreciate visiting.”
Read MoreThis year’s One Book One Community selection, The Book of Delights by Ross Gay, was selected by librarians from the Park City Library and Summit County Library in partnership with Dolly’s Bookstore and Utah Humanities.
Read MorePark City Library is once again hosting the ‘Wasatch Back Author Celebration” involving authors who either live in or have written about the Wasatch Back. It will be held on Saturday, August 28 from 10 am to noon outside, on the patio. Overflow guests might want to bring camp chairs or blankets.
Read MoreDr. Alison Delgado is a pediatrician who has been on staff at Summit Pediatrics in Park City since 2013. She is also a runner with an amazing story to tell and now a local author. After experiencing a near-fatal accident with dim prospects for recovery Alison beat the odds and wanted to share her story of hope, prayer and love.
Read MoreAfter half a century of working as a lawyer in Washington D.C. and as an international business consultant in countries around the world, Arthur Quinn has now settled in Park City and with the publishing of his first children’s book, The Rarie, has officially become an author.
Read MoreMarielle Pariseau, also known locally as “The Tooth Fairy” from many workshops and presentations, is one of the Park City area’s newest authors. After 37 years of clinical dentistry, Marielle hung up her drills in 2012 at which point she and husband, Hans, relocated from Ottawa, Canada, to Midway, Utah.
Read MoreLocal author, Susan Silverton, left her position as Academic Vice President at a Canadian university to serve on the board of two software companies. She found her way to Salt Lake City and eventually in 2017, attracted by our mountains and community, she relocated to Park City.
Read MoreLocal author, Liza Howell has lived in Park City for nearly 8 years but the manuscript of her new children's book THE CHRISTMAS BIRD has been around for double that.
Every Christmas for the past 15 years, Liza would think of the manuscript tucked away in her files and ponder what to do with it. Whether she was targeted by an algorithm or a higher power, she started getting emails from a publishing company. “These emails said: IS GOD CALLING YOU TO WRITE?” explained Liza. “I would look at that and say “Yes” but then hit delete. In January 2018, I decided I had time to pursue publishing and moved forward with Xulon Press.”
Read MoreOn Veterans Day, we honor those who have served and continue to serve our nation. To pay tribute to our service members and their families this November 11th, the Arts Council in partnership with the National Ability Center and Park City Municipal is celebrating stories of veterans to honor those who have served in our nation’s armed forces through literary art.
Read MoreA life-long athlete, Melanie Webb was born in Provo and grew up in Orem with epic views of Mount Timpanogos out her bedroom window. She graduated from BYU with a B.S. in Human Biology and Developmental Biology. “I left the area after college and lived in southern Utah for 5 years, Washington, D.C. for 7 years, and California for 2 years before returning home to the Wasatch Mountains.”
Read MorePark City Library is hosting a free Virtual Evening with Authors Amy Irvine and Pam Houston on Tuesday, October 6 from 7-9 pm. As part of Utah Humanities Book Festival, Kate Mapp, Adult Services Librarian will be moderating a discussion with the authors on their new book Airmail: Letter of Politics, Pandemics, and Place.
Read MoreThe 2020 One Book, One Community Author event with Pam Houston will be virtual on Thursday, September 10 at 7 pm. One Book, One Community is a national program that encourages public libraries across the United States to choose a book their entire community can read together then meet and discuss. Summit County extended the program even further to invite the author to join us for a community lecture.
Read MoreIn November of 2013, local author, Joel Zuckerman, wrote a letter of gratitude to a colleague and friend. He didn’t know he would sit down to write a second letter, not to mention a fifth or hundredth letter. In autumn 2020, Joel plans to release his book, Grateful, which is a compilation of 180 letters of gratitude he has written since.
Read MoreThe Park City Library is supporting its community throughout the Covid19 pandemic with unique and creative virtual programming. Their team is finding inventive ways to engage the community and continue to bring their outstanding collection of books, e-books, periodicals, and audio-visual materials accessible to the community.
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