CommUNITYread Keynote Author Talk & Reception:  An Evening with Derf Backderf

Thursday, Oct. 7 |  6-8 p.m.

Ohio University Zanesville Campus   1425 Newark Road

Elson Hall Auditorium

Meet bestselling author Derf Backderf at the Ohio University Zanesville Campus for a book signing reception and an author talk about his award-winning graphic novel "Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio."

6 p.m.– Book Signing Reception at the OUZ Library

7 p.m. – Author Talk at the Elson Auditorium

Derf Backderf was ten years old in 1970 and uses his firsthand memories of seeing the National Guardsmen patrolling his hometown streets as well as extensive research and personal interviews to form his graphic novel, Kent State: four dead in Ohio, which "is a moving and troubling story about the bitter price of dissent—as relevant today as it was in 1970.