Yuma — The Yuma County Library District hopes to continue its series of Virtual Author Conversations with best-selling authors and thought leaders. Each event will be streamed live at the Main Library and Foothills Library. Alternatively, you can join remotely by registering for the event at: https://libraryc.org/yumalibrary/upcoming

Tuesday, August 15, 1:00 p.m.

New York Times Bestselling Author The Prophet: An Author Conversation with Robert Jones Jr.

Robert Jones Jr. (formerly known online as “Baldwin’s Son”) is an award-winning author based in Brooklyn. He is the author of the New York Times best-selling novel The Prophet, which won the 2022 Publishing Triangle Edmund White Award for Best Debut Novel and was also a finalist for the 2021 National Book Awards in Fiction. was His work has been featured in The New York Times, Essence, Variety, The Paris Review and in the critically acclaimed anthologies Four Hundred Souls and The 1619 Project. His latest work can be found in the newsletter Witness. robert jones jr.substack.com.

Wednesday, August 23, 5:00 p.m.

Author Interview: Cassandra Clare, best-selling author of The Mortal Instruments series

Cassandra Claire was born in Tehran, Iran to American parents and spent much of her childhood traveling the world with her family, including trekking the Himalayas as a toddler and carrying her father’s backpack. I once lived in it for a month. She lived in France, England and Switzerland until she was ten years old.

After college, Kathy lived in Los Angeles and New York, where she worked for various entertainment magazines and even the rather seedy tabloids that reported on Brad and Angelina’s world travels and Britney Spears’ wardrobe malfunction. She began working on her YA novel, City of Bones, in 2004, inspired by the cityscape of her favorite city, Manhattan. She began writing fantasy novels full-time in 2006. Her first book, The City of Bones, which includes, but is not limited to, the rest of her The Mortal Instruments series, The Infernal, became the New York Times and her USA Today #1 bestseller. It led to numerous instant bestsellers. The “Device” series and the “Last Time” series.

Wednesday, August 30, 11:00 a.m.

First Year in College: The Author Talks with Jeff Selingo

Jeff Serlingo has been writing about higher education for over 20 years and is the author of three New York Times bestselling authors. His latest book, Who Gets In & Why: A Year Inside College Admissions, was published in September 2020 and was named one of the New York Times 100 Books to Watch of the Year. A regular contributor to The Atlantic, his Jeff is also Distinguished Advisor to Innovation and Professor of Practice at Arizona State University. He is also the co-host of the podcast “FutureU”. He lives in Washington DC with his family.