Author Night - Featuring Member Kathryn Graven

The University Club is excited to bring Author Night back to our new Living Room. Don't miss this chance to meet local author and fellow U-Club member, Kathryn Graven discuss her new book, Memoirs of a Mask Maker on Tuesday May 16 at 6:30 p.m. 

Memoirs of a Mask Maker is the moving story of how a 5-year-old girl navigates deep loss after a tragic car accident leaves her motherless. Charting a life of tending grief and reclaiming joy, Memoirs of a Mask Maker honors the women who helped the girl stitch together a beautiful life - a grandmother, a neighbor and a pharmacist in Japan. Years later, when the global pandemic raged, Kathryn Graven responded by sewing hundreds of colorful masks. Making masks tapped all she had learned about filling a void and building resilience.  

Kathryn Graven is a writer, mixed-media artist, musician and lifelong sewer. Fluent in Japanese, she began her journalism career in Tokyo at the ABC News Bureau, and then became a Tokyo correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.  In the U.S., she reported for the WSJ from New York and Boston, and taught international business reporting at Boston University. Kathryn graduated from Stanford University and from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. 

Pivoting to a new career, Kathryn studied mixed-media painting and abstract art at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She shows her art in open studios and participates in solo and group art events. During the summer, she lives on Great Cranberry Island, Maine. Passionate about sharing and preserving the bounty of her garden, she makes delicious jams and irresistible pickles.  

Books will be available for purchase and signing. Or, they can be ordered in advance on-line. Please visit the author's website www.kathryngraven.com for more information.