History Book Festival Presents Author Ellen Marie Wiseman

In collaboration with the History Book Festival, join us to talk with Ellen Marie Wiseman, author of The Orphan Collector: A Heroic Novel of Survival during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, featured at the 2020 virtual History Book Festival. In the fall of 1918, Philadelphians are celebrating the end of World War I when an even more urgent threat arrives: an influenza pandemic. After her mother's brutally sudden death, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange must leave their tenement apartment to find food for her two baby brothers. Then she herself falls ill and after a hospital stay is forced into an orphanage. Pia runs away to find her brothers, while a woman plots to keep them separated. Ellen Marie Wiseman is the bestselling author of several works of historical fiction. Her novels have been translated into eighteen languages and published worldwide. We invite you to support the author by purchasing a copy of her book from the Festival's official bookseller, Browseabout Books. Each copy purchased comes with a signed archival bookplate. Online program presented by the History Book Festival and Lewes Public Library. NOTE: this meeting is being conducted through Zoom. You MUST REGISTER to receive instructions for joining the meeting. Venue: Lewes Public Library.