Leander’s Lies: Where North Carolina history and imagination converge

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There was a real Leander who hid his past behind a string of lies. Why did he lie? Perhaps because of the political and economic climate of late 19th-century North Carolina. Nancy Werking Poling will discuss how she incorporated several realities of that period into fictional narrative. Get your tickets: https://history.swannanoavalleymuseum.org/wncpast/ Speaker’s Bio: Nancy Werking Poling lives in Black Mountain. After her essay, “Leander’s Lies” won the 2018 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize, she turned the narrative into a historical novel by the same title. Her other books include While Earth Still Speaks, an environmental novel, and Paradise Affirmed: stories of scandal and virtue at Happy Corner Church, linked short stories. Her fiction and creative non-fiction have appeared in numerous literary journals. nancypoling.com