Community Corner
Author Talk: Robert H. Patton—Hell Before Breakfast
Tuesday, May 20 Author Talk: Robert H. Patton—Hell Before Breakfast, 7 – 8:30 p.m. Author Robert H. Patton returns to Wilton Library to discuss his latest nonfiction, Hell Before Breakfast: America's First War Correspondents Making History and Headlines, from the Battlefields of the Civil War to the Far Reaches of the Ottoman Empire. His book celebrates America’s earliest war correspondents, legends in their time, but mostly forgotten today -- who learned their trade in the Civil War and went on to cover twenty years of bloody imperial conflict in Europe and Central Asia. Robert H. Patton graduated from Brown University and Northwestern University. He is the author of, among other works, The Pattons: A Personal History of an American Family and Patriot Pirates: The Privateer War for Freedom and Fortune in the American Revolution. See the library’s website for more details. Registration highly recommended. Books will be available for purchase and signing courtesy of Elm Street Books, New Canaan. Wilton Library, 137 Old Ridgefield Road, Wilton; www.wiltonlibrary.org; (203) 762-3950.