Sunday, September 7th
1pm CT – Plymouth Court Stage

Jane S. Smith’s new book, A Blacklist Education: American History, a Family Mystery, and a Teacher Under Fire, reveals the little-known 1950s program to purge public schools of left-leaning teachers, particularly in New York City. Other prize-winning books include Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vaccine, The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants, and Fool’s Gold, a comic novel. A member of the Northwestern University History Department, she received her PhD from Yale University. She lives in Chicago and works in a very small room with a very large window. Visit her at www.janessmith.com