Join IRW for an afternoon presentation with Maine children’s book author Rodman Philbrick!
The Kittery resident will talk about his novel “The Young Man and the Sea,” as well as his life and career. A book sale and signing will follow the presentation.
Philbrick started writing stories in sixth grade and never stopped. As a young, unpublished author, he worked as a carpenter and boatbuilder. After a career writing mysteries and suspense novels for adults, he stumbled on the idea for “Freak the Mighty,” his first book for young readers, which was made into a movie with Sharon Stone. His Civil War novel “The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg” won a Newbery Honor. In 2021, the Maine Library Association awarded him the Katahdin Lifetime Achievement Award, for an outstanding body of work in children’s literature.
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