Robert Rivard, Author of Trail of Feathers, to Appear at PEN Mexico
Conference in San Miguel de Allende
Robert Rivard's Trail of Feathers, A True Crime Tale Set in
Mexico, Earns Kudos From Independent Booksellers
Rivard to Appear at PEN Conference in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
in Early February
Robert Rivard, the award-winning editor of the San Antonio Express-News
and author of Trail of Feathers, will appear Feb. 6, 2007 for an
evening reading and conversation at the annual PEN Mexico conference in
San Miguel de Allende.
PEN Mexico is an affiliate of
International PEN, the world's oldest human rights organization and the
oldest international literary organization. "It's an honor to be
selected by PEN, given its mission of freedom of expression and
protecting writers," said Rivard.
Trail of Feathers
chronicles the true story of Rivard's search for justice in the December
1998 murder of his Mexico City correspondent Philip True, who was killed
in a Deliverance-like episode in western Mexico while hiking solo
through Huichol Indian territory in the Sierra Madre Occidental. Rivard,
editor of the San Antonio
Express-News, tackles his own long journey that leads him to a
"trail of feathers" that seeped from True's sleeping bag, to discover
what happened -- and why.
Trail of Feathers was named by London's Publishing News as one of
the top ten true crime titles in its December 2006 list of noteworthy
paperbacks. Book Sense, the family of independent booksellers, also
cited the paperback as noteworthy. Trail of Feathers was
published in December 2005 by Public Affairs, New York, a division of
Perseus Books. The paperback edition was released in November 2006.
"Since Trail of Feathers is set in Mexico, it's a special
opportunity for me to present the book to an audience in Mexico," Rivard
said. "Violence against journalists in Mexico is epidemic, and the
Mexican justice system is not responding adequately. I hope by coming to
Mexico I can be a voice for Mexican journalists at risk who are not
being heard."
When published last year, Trail of Feathers was named a Book
Sense pick for 2005 and People Magazine named it one of the top five
nonfiction reads of the year.
Tagged "a model of its genre" by Bookmarks Magazine.
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