An Evening with Viola Shipman

Library events are always free to the public and you do not need a library card to attend! 

This program will be presented in-person and virtually on Zoom. Join us in-person in the auditorium at the FCL Farmington Hills location at 32737 W. 12 Mile Rd., Farmington Hills, MI, 48334. Registration is required to receive the Zoom meeting link.

Registration Required 

The Farmington Friends of the Library are pleased to host USA Today bestselling author Viola Shipman (aka Wade Rouse)!

Wade Rouse is the USA TODAY, Publishers Weekly and internationally bestselling author of 17 books, including five memoirs and ten novels. His new novel, The Page Turner, will publish next spring from HarperCollins.

He chose his grandmother’s name, Viola Shipman, as a pen name to honor the working poor Ozarks seamstress whose sacrifices changed his family’s life and whose memory inspires his fiction.

Wade’s books have been translated into nearly 25 languages and have been bestsellers across the world. His novel, The Secret of Snow, was recently optioned for a TV movie by the producers of the popular Netflix series, Ginny & Georgia.

Wade’s books have been selected multiple times as Must-Reads by NBC’s Today Show as well as Michigan Notable Books of the Year. His memoirs and novels have been featured in the Washington Post, USA Today and on Chelsea Lately and chosen three times as Indie Next Picks by the nation’s independent booksellers. Wade was a finalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards in Humor (he lost to Tina Fey) and was named by Writer’s Digest as “The #2 Writer, Dead or Alive, We’d Like to Have Drinks With” (Wade was sandwiched between Ernest Hemingway and Hunter Thompson).

Generously sponsored by the Friends of the Library