Annex Arts will host an event marking the 25th anniversary of local writer Jane Mendelsohn's debut novel and New York Times bestseller,  I Was Amelia Earhart, which gives a fictionalized account of what happened to Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan after their 1937 disappearance near New Guinea during their attempt to fly around the world. 

The evening promises heady and fun conversation as Jane Mendelsohn will engage in conversation with Caroline Bicks, Shakespeare scholar, Stephen E. King Chair in Literature, University of Maine, whose book, Cognition and Girlhood in Shakespeare's World, will be published July, 2021. 

Mendelsohn is also author of the novels Innocence (2000), a gothic horror coming-of-age story about a teenage girl whose mother dies; American Music (2010), about an Iraq War vet with PTSD who connects with a therapist via strange visions; and Burning Down the House (2016), which follows a rich New York real estate family.