JULIA WHITTY
Monday, May 14 at 7:30 p.m.

Award-winning writer Julia Whitty, born in Bogota to a Tasmanian father and Anglo-Indian mother, first won attention and praise for her fabulous book of stories, A Tortoise for the Queen of Tonga. She is now poised to do so again with her brilliant new nonfiction book, The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific (Houghton Mifflin). "Julia Whitty is emerging as one of the must-read voices about the wet three-quarters of the planet, what we're doing to it, and why it should matter to us. This book has some foreboding, but basically it's a marvelous love story, of an affair with salt water and all its mysteries." - Bill McKibben. "Her way with language...makes readers feel they are actually part of the coral reef atoll environment, both above and below the surface. This is at once a memoir of her travels and an easy-to-grasp introduction to the ecology of coral reefs and the Polynesian peoples." - Library Journal.

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