Our Pascal Hall Authors Series kickoff for Summer 2024! Cocktails from 5-5:30, conversation from 5:30-6:30. A book signing and reception will follow. All events in this series are free and open to the public but registration is required. Click here for tickets!

Elliot Ackerman (June 25) is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels 2054, Halcyon, 2034, Red Dress In Black and White,  Waiting for Eden, Dark at the Crossing, and Green on Blue, as well as the memoir The Fifth Act: America’s End in Afghanistan, and Places and Names: On War, Revolution and Returning. His books have been nominated for the National Book Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal in both fiction and nonfiction, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize,among others. He is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a Marine veteran who served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he received the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart. 

Ackerman’s interviewer is Alicia Anstead, a writer, editor, producer, and educator. She was previously executive editor of Inside Arts and of The Writer magazine. As an arts reporter at the Bangor Daily News in Maine, she won many awards for her writing. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Scientific American, and Art New England.