Plymouth Court Stage
Sunday, Sept. 8th at 12pm

Meg Kissinger, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and author, will help you see and think about people with mental illness in a new light. Her engaging memoir, While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence has been praised for its incisive reporting, boundless compassion and surprising humor. It was named as an Outstanding Work of Literature winner and an editors’ choice by The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, Goodreads and Independent Booksellers Association. Audible chose While You Were Out as the Best of the Year. Kissinger taught investigative reporting at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and is a trainer for the school’s Dart Center on Trauma and Journalism.