Happy Hour and Texas Author Interview with Kate Winkler Dawson

Start: Wednesday, April 16, 2025 6:00PM
End: Wednesday, April 16, 2025 7:30PM

The Texas Author Series welcomes author Kate Winkler Dawson to Chez Zee on April 16 to discuss her book, "The Sinners All Bow".

Happy Hour is from 6 - 6:30
Author interview with Q&A is 6:30-7:30
Admission includes light refreshment and appetizers. 
Cash bar. General Admission tickets $19 per person +tax.
Students are $9, Anyone making a reservation for dinner after the event can attend the Author Happy hour FREE.
Must register to attend.

MORE ABOUT THE BOOK and AUTHOR

Acclaimed journalist, podcaster, and true–crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson tells the true story of the scandalous murder investigation that became the inspiration for both Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and the first true-crime book published in America.

On a cold winter day in 1832, Sarah Maria Cornell was found dead in a quiet farmyard in a small New England town. When her troubled past and a secret correspondence with charismatic Methodist minister Reverend Ephraim Avery was uncovered, more questions emerged. Was Sarah's death a suicide…or something much darker? Determined to uncover the real story, Victorian writer Catharine Read Arnold Williams threw herself into the investigation as the trial was unfolding and wrote what many claim to be the first American true-crime narrative, Fall River. The murder divided the country and inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter—but the reverend was not convicted, and questions linger to this day about what really led to Sarah Cornell's death. Until now.

In The Sinners All Bow, acclaimed true-crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson travels back in time to nineteenth-century small-town America, emboldened to finish the work Williams started nearly two centuries before. Using modern investigative advancements—including "forensic knot analysis" and criminal profiling (which was invented fifty-five years later with Jack the Ripper)—Dawson fills in the gaps of Williams's research to find the truth and bring justice to an unsettling mystery that speaks to our past as well as our present, anchored by three women who subverted the script they were given.

The conversation begins at 6:30 pm, followed by Q&A.
We encourage you to make dinner reservations at Chez Zee for before or after the event (and register for a free ticket!). Learn more about the Texas Author Series and your hosts, Cari Clark, Realtor and Sharon Watkins, Owner of Chez Zee at http://texasauthorseries.com

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Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/2999194-0?pid=3698

Prices:
General Admission: USD 19.00,
Student Admission: USD 9.00,
Staying For Dinner? Your Ticket is FREE - Make A Reservation: USD 0.00

Artist / Speaker: Kate Winkler Dawson