Essex County - West Orange - Book Launch Reception at Edison National Historical Park
Saturday, October 26 - West Orange, Essex County Book Launch Reception at Edison National Historical Park To celebrate the publication of Edison , the new biography of Thomas A. Edison by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris, Random House will host a book launch reception from 2:00 - 4:00 pm on Saturday at the park’s laboratory complex. The event is free and open to the general public. Random House editor Andrew Ward will offer brief remarks at the reception and Thomas Edison National Historical Park will announce the details of “One Book, One Town: West Orange Reads Edison,” a community-wide reading experience to encourage all to read and discuss the biography together. Copies of Edison will be available for purchase, and on display in the park archives will be rarely-seen historic documents accessed by Edmund Morris while he researched the biography. Edison is the first major biography of Thomas Edison to be published in the last twenty years. Edmu...