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SUMMARY:Author Event: Caroline Bicks\, Monsters in the Archives
DESCRIPTION:Caroline Bicks will read from her new book\, Monsters in the Ar
 chives. During the first hour\, the author will read and discuss her book 
 as well as answer questions. The second hour features a reception hosted b
 y Stefanie Scheer Young in her barn next door to the library.\n\nBooks are
  available for sale and signing courtesy of Compass Rose Books.\n\nAbout M
 onsters in the Archives\nAfter Caroline Bicks was named the University of 
 Maine’s inaugural Stephen E. King Chair in Literature\, she became the f
 irst scholar to be granted extended access by King to his private archive\
 , a treasure trove of manuscripts that document the legendary writer’s c
 reative process—most of them never before studied or published. The year
  she spent exploring King’s early drafts and hand-written revisions was 
 guided by one question millions of King’s enthralled and terrified reade
 rs (including her) have asked themselves: What makes Stephen King’s writ
 ing stick in our heads and haunt us long after we’ve closed the book?\nP
 art literary master class\, part biography\, part memoir and investigation
  into our deepest anxieties\, Monsters in the Archives—authorized by St
 ephen King himself and informed by interviews Bicks had with him—is unli
 ke anything ever published about the master of horror. It chronicles what 
 Bicks found when she set out to unearth how King crafted some of his scari
 est\, most iconic moments. But it’s also a story about a grown-up Englis
 h professor facing her childhood fears and getting to know the man whose m
 onsters helped unleash them.\nCaroline Bicks is an internationally recogni
 zed Shakespeare scholar who has published widely on early modern drama\, g
 ender\, and the history of science. She studied Renaissance poetry at Harv
 ard University as an undergraduate and received her PhD in English Literat
 ure from Stanford University. She was tenured at Boston College in 2008\, 
 the same year that she began summer teaching at the Bread Loaf School of E
 nglish. In 2017\, she became the inaugural Stephen E. King Chair in Liter
 ature at the University of Maine.
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