2025 Spring Literary Luncheon
May 15, 2025
11:00AM CST
Wisconsin Club, 900 W. Wisconsin Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53233
Nancy Johnson is the featured author at the 2025 Friends of Milwaukee Public Library’s Spring Literary Luncheon. A native of Chicago’s South Side, Johnson worked for more than a decade as an Emmy-nominated, award-winning television journalist at CBS and ABC affiliates in markets nationwide. Her debut novel, The Kindest Lie, has been reviewed by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times, and is featured on Entertainment Weekly’s Must List.
This engaging sophomore novel, presents the crashing tides of progress and upheaval in 1969 Nashville with those of 1992 Chicago. This is accomplished from the vantage of a mother and daughter as they simultaneously navigate a similar nexus in their respective lives. They each confront their own dreams for the future against the challenging and tempestuous headwinds of race, equality, socioeconomics, parental authority, legacy, autonomy, and love. Nancy Johnson deftly utilizes a limited omniscient third-person perspective that draws in the reader and carries them into this very compelling dual narrative.
Current Friends members receive discounted tickets!
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What is the Spring Literary Luncheon?
The Friends of Milwaukee Public Library’s annual Spring Literary Luncheon is an event we all look forward to every year. Gathering with so many like-minded individuals who love all things literary is a special annual treat each spring. The luncheon is sponsored by the Friends of the Milwaukee Public Library, the Wisconsin Club, and Boswell Book Company and will include a book signing and raffle. Over the years, the Spring Literary Luncheon has attracted sell-out crowds and award-winning authors including Elizabeth Strout, David Maraniss, Madeline Miller, Mary Higgins Clark, Ruth Reichl, Sue Monk Kidd, Sara Gruen, and Louise Erdrich, among many others.
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