VISITING AUTHOR: Ellen Warner
Join us at the Library Tuesday, August 23 @ 5:30 pm for an insightful look into the lives of women over 50.
Photojournalist and portrait photographer Ellen Warner will discuss her new book The Second Half: Forty Women Reveal Life After Fifty
Book signing to follow.
Please bring a mask!
The Second Half explores, in photographic portraits and interviews, how the second half of life is experienced by women from many different cultures. From a French actress to a British novelist, from an Algerian nomad to a Saudi Arabian doctor, and an American politician, Ellen Warner traveled all over the world to interview women about their lives. She asked them what they learned in the first half that was helpful in the second, and what advice they would give to younger women. Their revealing and inspiring stories are enlightening for all readers and are illustrated by Warner’s stunning portraits which tell their own story.
About the Author
Ellen Warner started her career as a photojournalist in 1969. For the following nine years she photographed in China, Iran, East Africa, India and Europe, was published in numerous newspapers and magazines, and was represented by Black Star. She stopped working professionally from 1978 to 1988 when her children were small. When Ellen resumed her career, she concentrated on portraits. Over the years she developed a specialty of author portraits and worked for most publishing houses in New York and London. She resumed photojournalism in 1997 and started writing travel articles to accompany her photographs. Her travel articles have been published in The New York Times, Travel and Leisure and The Traveller. In 2006 Ellen began working on The Second Half.