Congrats to Dame Ames Sheldon!

Congrats to Minnesota Dame Ames Sheldon on winning the Firebird Book Award for Current Events for her latest novel, Lemons in the Garden of Love. 

It’s a timely story of the fight for reproductive rights for women framed in an engaging novel featuring characters Cassie Lyman, a graduate student in the 1970s, and her great aunt Kate Easton, a suffragist. Ames based Kate, the inspiration for graduate student Cassie, on her grandmother’s aunt, Blanche Ames, a passionate women’s rights advocate. Ames’ first historical novel, Eleanor’s Wars, won the 2016 Benjamin Franklin Gold Award for Best New Voice: Fiction. Her second historical novel, Don’t Put the Boats Away, was finalist in historical fiction for the 2019 Best Book Awards. 

She will be speaking to our group in September. In the meantime, you can listen to some recent podcasts and find more information on her upcoming talks here.