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Scott Graham in Conversation with John Peel

A 2024 Literary Festival event!

Attendees are encouraged to bring their questions and comments for what promises to be a fun and wide-ranging conversation between two of Durango's most respected writers.

National Outdoor Book Award-winning author Scott Graham will talk about?Death Valley Duel, book nine in his National Park Mystery Series published in June by Torrey House Press, and his many and varied experiences in the writing and publishing world, with Maria’s Bookshop-bestselling author and writer John Peel. 
 
Attendees are encouraged to bring their questions and comments for what promises to be a fun and wide-ranging conversation between two of Durango’s most respected writers. 

Food and drinks provided! 

Book sales by Maria's Bookstore.

Please RSVP online or ask library staff for help. 

A bilingual program! ¡Un programa bilingüe!

Scott Graham is the author of Death Valley Duel, book nine in the National Park Mystery Series, published in June by Torrey House Press. The critically acclaimed series features archaeologist Chuck Bender and his

 family as they encounter villainous intrigue in America’s iconic western national parks, illuminating environmental and social justice issues specific to the parks along the way. 

In addition to his mysteries, Scott is the author of five nonfiction books, including Extreme Kids, winner of the National Outdoor Book Award. 
Scott is an avid outdoors person and advocate for public lands who lives with his wife, an emergency physician, in Durango. He has worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine editor, radio disk jockey, Durango City Councilor, and coal-shoveling fireman on the steam-powered Durango-Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad. 

John Peel is a journalist and wanna-be novelist who has lived in Durango for three-plus decades, most of those with his wife, Judy. He spent 22 years as a reporter and editor 

with the Durango Herald before starting a business, John Peel’s Life Preserver, which documents clients’ personal and family histories. He has written mountain biking and hiking 

guidebooks for Southwest Colorado, which is really just an excuse to get out and hit the trails.   

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