Best Selling Author Amy Bloom Draws Library Crowd

Best selling author Amy Bloom (r) was interviewed tonight at the Westport Library by Westporter Sybil Steinberg, Publisher’s Weekly editor-at-large, before a packed audience. She discussed her acclaimed novel “Lucky Us,” published last year and just issued in paperback. Bloom, who lives in Durham, Conn., a rural community located about halfway between Hartford and New Haven, taught at Yale University for the last decade and is now Wesleyan University’s Distinguished University Writer in Residence. “I learned to write by being an avid reader,” she told the audience, adding, “My children say that I write about four things: family, sex, death and love.” (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Phyllis Groner for WestportNow.com