William N. Skirball Writers Center Stage: Maria Semple

The next author speaking as a part of the William N. Skirball Writers Center Stage Series is Maria Semple. The event will take place Tuesday, March 20, at 7:30 p.m. in the Milton and Tamar Maltz Performing Arts Center at the Temple – Tifereth Israel. The talk will be followed by a question-and-answer session and a book signing.

About the speaker

Best-selling author Maria Semple has written three novels, including Where’d You Go, Bernadette, which spent a year on The New York Times best-sellers list and won the American Library Association’s Alex Award. She began her career as a screenwriter for such successful television shows as Beverly Hills, 90210; Saturday Night Live; and Ellen. She was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for her work on the series Mad About You, and for a Writers Guild of America Award for her work on Arrested Development. Her latest novel is Today Will Be Different.

About the series

Presented by the Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation and its academic partner Case Western Reserve University, the William N. Skirball Writers Center Stage Series brings the literary world’s best writers to Cleveland. Funds raised by this series help support Cuyahoga County Public Library, the nation’s top-rated library system for eight consecutive years. Purchase tickets.