Author Roy Hoffman will speak Sept. 15 at Foley Public Library

Author Roy Hoffman will speak Sept. 15 at Foley Public Library

Local author Roy Hoffman will give a presentation titled “Inspiration: Where Stories Come From” at the Foley Public Library in the upstairs meeting room at 2 p.m. on Sept. 15.
Reservations are required. RSVP at foleylibrary.org or call 251-943-1031.
Hoffman is a native of Mobile who is both a novelist and a journalist. Roy worked as a writer in New York City for 20 years, including a stint as a speechwriter, before returning to Mobile Bay with his wife and daughter in 1996. A former staff writer for the Mobile Press-Register, with a special interest in area culture, religion, and history, he received the 2009 Clarence Cason Award in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Alabama, and contributes essays and reviews to the New York Times and other publications.
Hoffman’s new novel is “The Promise of the Pelican.” The Fairhope resident is also author of “Come Landfall,” and “Chicken Dreaming Corn.” and “Almost Family,” and the nonfiction books “Alabama Afternoons” and “Back Home.”