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Bobby Bostic Memoir Release

September 7, 2023 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Background image is of a hand writing a book. Overlayed on that to the left is a round picture of the author's face and a smaller image of the book cover. The author is in a white t-shirt on a blue background with dark complexion, glasses, and a goatee. He is looking to the right. The text to the right of the image reads, "New Memoir, Author event." in white print over a blue bubble. Below in a blue bubble with white print it reads "with special guest" and then "Bobby Bostic" below in white print. "Sept 7th at 06.00PM" with "At Kirkwood Public Library Co-Hosted by the Kirkwood Human Rights Commission" in white below. The Kirkwood Public Library 95th anniversary logo is in the bottom right hand corner. It is a red logo with a white image of the library and the numbers 95 over it.

The Kirkwood Public Library & the Kirkwood Human Rights Commission will once again co-host a program featuring author Bobby Bostic. Bostic, who was sentenced to 241 years in prison in 1997 for non-homicide offenses which he committed in St. Louis when he was 16, was paroled in November 2022 with the aid of the judge who sentenced him and advocated for his release at his parole board hearing. While in prison he got his GED, took numerous college courses, and published books about his life as a teenage gang member, and the Missouri prison system. He will read from his new memoir, Humbled to the Dust: Still I Rise which recounts his journey from the streets of north St. Louis to prison and his dramatic evolution while incarcerated. He also describes his post-prison life adjusting to freedom in a world with dramatic differences to the one he left in the mid 1990’s. 

 

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September 7, 2023
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6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
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Kirkwood Public Library @ 140 E Jefferson Ave, St. Louis, MO 63122

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