Live Events
Michael Perry Returns to Iowa (show #2) – Marshalltown Public LIbrary
ATTENDANCE AT THIS EVENT IS FREE
As part of Michael Perry’s 2-day run in Iowa, he will speak (if you’ve never seen Mike speak, you know “speak” doesn’t quite get it–more like roughneck standup comedy with a poetic twist) at the Marshalltown Public Library on Thursday, November 21, 2024 at 6:00pm in the library’s Community Meeting Room. This event is free. Beaverdale Books will have books for sale and signing after the event.
Michael Perry is a farm boy turned humorist, New York Times bestselling author, volunteer firefighter/first responder, corporate speaker, and amateur snow plow driver from rural Wisconsin. After leaving you laughing (and nodding, and sometimes getting misty) from his “reflective roughneck” takes on life in rural America, Perry will stay to sign books and other merchandise for sale.
Perry’s bestselling books include the volunteer firefighter memoir Population: 485 (subsequently adapted for the stage), Truck: A Love Story, Coop, Visiting Tom, and Montaigne in Barn Boots. Among his other twenty-plus titles are The Scavengers (for young readers), his novel The Jesus Cow, the essay collections Peaceful Persistence, Million Billion, and Hunker, and his most recent book, the deeply powerful novella Forty Acres Deep. Raised on a small Midwestern dairy farm, Perry put himself through nursing school while working on a ranch in Wyoming, then detoured into writing. He lives with his wife and two daughters in rural Wisconsin, where he still makes an occasional call with the local volunteer fire and rescue service. He performs widely as a humorist (his live humor albums include Never Stand Behind A Sneezing Cow and The Clodhopper Monologues), tours with his band The Long Beds, and lives online at www.sneezingcow.com.
This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Marshalltown Public Library and is free and open to the public. For more questions, please contact the library’s Information Desk at 641-754-5738 ext. 2.
Marshalltown Public Library
105 West Boone St
Marshalltown, IA 50158