Library Week – Dale Neal Book Talk

f you haven’t seen him before, don’t miss author Dale Neal as he travels through our area on tour with his books, The Woman with the Stone Knife and Kings of Coweetsee. On Tuesday, April 8 Dale will be holding a Book Talk at Alleghany County Public Library in Sparta from 3:30-5:30 p.m. Find out more online at nwrl.org/regional-library-events. This is a free event, so please mark you calendar!

Dale Neal earned his MFA at Warren Wilson College and was a prize-winning writer for the Asheville Citizen-Times. He currently teaches fiction at the Lenoir-Rhyne University Graduate Center in Asheville. In his book, Kings of Coweetsee, a local historian finds a stolen ballot box and out spills the secrets to Coweetsee County’s troubled history. In The Woman With the Stone Knife, Neal imagines the life of a Cherokee woman exiled for 20 years in Georgian England. Will she remain in London to avenge her husband’ s death or reunite with the son she left behind in the Cherokee mountains? A choice between two worlds.

A wide offering of events are planned April 6-13 with Book Talks, Workshops and so much more! Regional book clubs are encouraged to add The Woman with The Stone Knife, Kings of Coweetsee and The Girl from the Red Rose Motel to your 2025 reading list and stay connected with your local branch of the Northwestern Regional Library to learn about other activities. One more way we’re here for YOU!