Please join Longfellow Books and the MWPA for a virtual book launch to help celebrate the paperback release of Elizabeth Letts' The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America, Elizabeth will be in conversation with Portland writer Dave Howard.
Author Elizabeth Berg notes, “Elizabeth Letts’s gift is that she makes you feel you are the one taking this trip: selecting your route from a gas station map, enduring awful weather and accidents, hearing the creak of the saddle and the roar of the trucks that pass you by. This is a book we can enjoy always but especially need now.”
Elizabeth Letts is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Eighty-Dollar Champion and The Perfect Horse, which won the 2017 PEN Center USA Literary Award for research nonfiction, as well as the novel Finding Dorothy. A lifelong horsewoman, she lives in Wyoming.
David Howard is a journalist and the author of nonfiction books and magazine stories. His most recent book, Chasing Phil: The Adventures of Two Undercover Agents with the World’s Most Charming Con Man, was published in 2017. In its review, the Washington Post called the book “a caper, a picaresque, an anti-Untouchables.” His first book, Lost Rights: The Misadventures of a Stolen American Relic, chronicled the 138-year journey of an original, priceless rendition of the Bill of Rights that was pilfered during the Civil War. Publishers Weekly called the book a “remarkable American story” and a “marvelously compelling read” in a starred review.