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SPEAK Lecture Series

Victoria Christopher Murray

2024-10-24 19:00:00 2024-10-24 20:00:00 America/Chicago SPEAK Lecture Series Victoria Christopher Murray is a bestselling author or co-author of more than 30 novels, including The Personal Librarian. Victoria will discuss her books at this FREE event at Ivy Tech Auditorium. Ivy Tech Evansville - Auditorium

Thursday, October 24
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2024-10-24 19:00:00 2024-10-24 20:00:00 America/Chicago SPEAK Lecture Series Victoria Christopher Murray is a bestselling author or co-author of more than 30 novels, including The Personal Librarian. Victoria will discuss her books at this FREE event at Ivy Tech Auditorium. Ivy Tech Evansville - Auditorium

Victoria Christopher Murray is a bestselling author or co-author of more than 30 novels, including The Personal Librarian. Victoria will discuss her books at this FREE event at Ivy Tech Auditorium.

Victoria will discuss her works on Thursday, October 24  at 7:00 pm at Ivy Tech Evansville. Please use Entrance C to enter the building.  Thanks to the generosity of the EVPL Foundation, this event is FREE and open to all

Victoria Christopher Murray is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author or co-author of more than 30 novels, including the New York Times Instant Best Sellers, The Personal Librarian and The First Ladies.  With almost three million books in print, Victoria is one of the country’s top African American contemporary authors. 

A native New Yorker, Victoria Christopher Murray attended Hampton University where she majored in communication disorders. After graduating, Victoria attended New York University’s Stern Business School where she received her MBA in Marketing.

Over her career, Victoria has received numerous awards including the Phyllis Wheatley Trailblazer Award, the Delta Sigma Theta Osceola Award for Excellence in the Arts, Go On Girl Book Club Author of the Year, eleven African American Literary Awards and five NAACP Image Award nominations. In 2016, she won the Image Award for Outstanding Literature for her social commentary novel, Stand Your Ground.

In addition to being a New York Times Bestseller, The Personal Librarian was a Good Morning America Book Club selection and named a Best Book of the Year by NPR. The First Ladies was Target’s 2023 Book of the Year. 

She is also a Christian fiction writer, and five of her Seven Deadly Sins novels have become Lifetime movies produced by TD Jakes, Shaun Robinson and Derrick Williams. The Personal Librarian has been optioned by Al Roker Entertainment to become a mini series.

Venue details


3501 N First Ave

Evansville, IN 47710