Author Event with Amanda Cockrell
Venue: Blacksburg Books, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Sunday, November 30, 2025
Time: 5:30 - 7:00 PM
Event Types: Miscellaneous, Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free
Blacksburg Books presents an Author Event with Amanda Cockrell on Sunday, November 30, 2025.
Author Amanda Cockrell will be at Blacksburg Books to discuss her new book, "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been", a timely and compelling novel set during Hollywood's blacklist years.
Book Synopsis:
Elizabeth Sydney's film career spanned the Golden Age of Hollywood and barely survived Sen. Joe McCarthy's infamous Red Scare hunt for Communists that produced a blacklist that shattered careers. Some of her costars and writer friends weren't so lucky. Now she wants to be buried in her back yard and the will is invalid if she doesn't get her way. A combustible assortment of industry friends, family, former lovers, a man no one has hitherto heard of, half a dozen charitable beneficiaries, and an ungovernable horde of media descend on the small California town where she retired and picked out a spot in her oak grove. As they try to break the will, her reasons begin to surface in the story of an old betrayal of friends by friends and by the country's own government
Blacksburg Books is located at 401 South Main Street, Suite 106 in Blacksburg, VA.
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