John Sayles, author portrait
© Mary Cybulski

John Sayles

John Sayles is an American independent film director, screenwriter, actor, and novelist. He has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, for Passion Fish (1992) and Lone Star (1996). He has written seven novels, the most recent being Yellow Earth (2020) and A Moment in the Sun (2011).
Crucible
To Save the Man
Jamie MacGillivray
Jamie MacGillivray

Tue Sep 30
CUMBERLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOC. MUSEUM SHOP
21 N PITT ST
CARLISLE, PA 17013-2945
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Fri Jan 23
COPPERFIELD'S BOOKS
775 VILLAGE CT
SANTA ROSA, CA 95405-6781
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Books

Crucible
To Save the Man
Jamie MacGillivray
Jamie MacGillivray

Events

Tue Sep 30
CUMBERLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOC. MUSEUM SHOP
21 N PITT ST
CARLISLE, PA 17013-2945
Google Map

Fri Jan 23
COPPERFIELD'S BOOKS
775 VILLAGE CT
SANTA ROSA, CA 95405-6781
Google Map

FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from John Sayles’s To Save the Man

One of America’s greatest storytellers sheds light on an American tragedy: the Wounded Knee Massacre, and the ‘cultural genocide’ experienced by the Native American children at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. In September of 1890, the academic year begins at the Carlisle School, a military-style boarding school for Indians in Pennsylvania, founded and run by

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