Ann Hagedorn Author Visit

Join Oakwood native and acclaimed author and journalist, Ann Hagedorn, for an inside look at her latest book, Sleeper Agent.  Sleeper Agent is the story of the only Soviet military spy to have full security clearance in America's top-secret project to build the first atomic bomb. He was a U.S. soldier born and raised in Iowa who charmed everyone he met, loved baseball and Walt Whitman, belonged to bowling leagues and bridge clubs, and all the while he was sending atomic secrets to Moscow to help build their own atomic bomb. He was never caught. “A historical page-turner of the highest order” (The Wall Street Journal)  This is an In-person event.

Ann Hagedorn is a former staff writer for The Wall Street Journal and an award-winning author of five previous narrative nonfiction books, including Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad and Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919. As an adjunct professor, she has taught writing at Columbia University, Northwestern, Xavier University, and Miami University, holds masters degrees from Columbia University and the University of Michigan, and an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Denison University.