My Liberal Arts Education Led to a Writing Career I Never Expected: A Conversation with Alafair Burke

President Holley welcomes legal scholar and New York Times bestselling novelist Alafair Burke to campus on Wednesday, April 3, at 5 pm in the Community Center Great Room. The first twenty-five students to attend will receive free copies of Burke’s “Find Me”! After a conversation on stage with President Holley, Burke will hold a book signing.

This event is free and open to the public.

Alafair Burke is the New York Times bestselling, Edgar Award nominated author of twenty crime novels. Published in more than twenty languages, her books have been featured on “Best Book” lists from the Today Show, Entertainment Weekly, People, O (Oprah Magazine), The Boston Globe, Washington Post, Sun Sentinel, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and numerous other outlets.

She has been called “a genius for plot” and “one of our greatest contemporary mystery writers.” She was the first woman of color to be elected to serve as the President of Mystery Writers of America.

A graduate of Reed College and Stanford Law School and a former prosecutor, Alafair is now a professor at Hofstra Law School, where she teaches criminal law and procedure, where her scholarship explores police and prosecutorial discretion.

Accessibility: For inquiries about the accessibility of this event or to request any accommodations, please contact Madeline Peters at mlpeters@mtholyoke.edu. Please make accommodation requests no later than 72 hours in advance to give implementation time. However, in all situations, a good faith effort will be made to provide accommodations up until the time of the event.