VIRTUAL EVENT BEGINS AT 7:00 PM EASTERN TIME
The Mark Twain House & Museum welcomes returning author Paul Fischer to discuss his new book THE MAN WHO INVENTED MOTION PICTURES: A TRUE TALE OF OBSESSION MURDER AND THE MOVIES, a page-turning history about the invention of the motion picture and the mysterious man behind it—detailing his life, work, disappearance, and legacy. Paul is joined in conversation by award-winning true crime author Dean Jobb.
FREE virtual event, although donations are gratefully accepted. REGISTER HERE.
Copies of THE MAN WHO INVENTED MOTION PICTURES signed by the author are available for purchase through the Mark Twain Store; proceeds benefit The Mark Twain House & Museum. Books will be shipped after the event. We regret that we are NOT able to ship books outside the United States as it is cost-prohibitive to do so.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR
Dean Jobb is an award-winning author and journalist and a professor at the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he teaches in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction program. He specializes in true crime and writes a monthly column on the genre, “Stranger Than Fiction,” which appears in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Jobb’s articles and book reviews appear in CrimeReads, Inside History magazine, the Chicago Review of Books, and the Washington Independent Review of Books. During his 35-year career as a newspaper staff writer and freelance journalist he has written features and commentaries on an array of subjects – history, current events, law, business, politics, media ethics, science, travel, and the craft of nonfiction.
