Waterville Public Library

Please join us in the beautiful fourth floor reading room at the Waterville Public Library at 1:00pm on Saturday, May 17, 2025 to hear Author Ron Currie, Jr. read from his fifth book due out in March 2025: The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne.

“Literary thrillers just don’t come any better than Ron Currie’s The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne. It’s profoundly serious and terrifying in equal measure." ~ Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Somebody's Fool

Books will be available for purchase at the event from Oliver & Friends Bookshop. 

This event is free, and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided. For more information, please call 207.872.5433, or email librarian@watervillelibrary.org. This event is presented by the Waterville Public Library and Waterville Creates. 

Born and raised in Waterville, Maine, Ron Currie, Jr. is the award-winning author of five novels. He has won the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, the Addison M. Metcalf Award, the Alex Award, and the Pushcart Prize. His books have been translated into fifteen languages, and his short fiction and nonfiction have received recognition in Best American anthologies. As a screenwriter he worked most recently on the Apple TV+ series Extrapolations and has developed projects with AMC Studios, Amblin Television, and ITV America. He lives in Portland, Maine, and teaches in the University of Southern Maine Stonecoast MFA program.

THE SAVAGE, NOBLE DEATH OF BABS DIONNE • By Ron Currie • G. P. Putnam’s Sons • On Sale: March 25, 2025 • ISBN: 9780593851661 • Price: $29.00 • Also available in e-book and audio