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Live from Prairie Lights: Jeffrey Copeland
Sep 18, 2018
07:00 PM
Prairie Lights Books, Second Floor
15 South Dubuque Street, Iowa City, IA 52240
Inman’s War and Shell Games author Jeffrey Copeland will read from Plague in Paradise: The Black Death in Los Angeles, 1924.
"This narrative non-fiction tells the story of how the medical community and civic leaders in Los Angeles worked to stop the highly-contagious Black Plague in 1924. It highlights the work of the doctor, nurse, and priest at the center of the outbreak and how politics, racism, and greed delayed its resolution" —Paragon
Jeffrey Copeland is a professor and head of the Department of Languages and Literature at the University of Northern Iowa, where he teaches children's and young-adult literature courses and English education. A native St. Louis, he lives in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
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