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government. Under his editorship, The Des Moines Register, Iowa’s leading newspaper, won three Pulitzer Prizes while Gannon’s columns won national writing awards. As Washington Bureau Chief for the Detroit News, he covered The White House, Congress and politics. Even in retirement, he continues to write for USA TODAY and the Rappahannock News.
Although his columns cover everything from his Midwestern roots to his Irish heritage to his interest in trains, politics and a confederate ancestor, one essay that is particularly ironic is the one entitled “Books, Books, Books: What to do with Them All?” written in September of 1994. In this work, Gannon writes about his weakness for books and his temptation to open a bookstore, which he decided was impractical. Of course, four years after writing that column, he did just that, opening the very bookshop in the former Episcopal Church in Sperryville where he will now be signing copies of his book. Mr. Gannon ran the bookshop for 5 years before selling it to the current owners.
The April 8th event is free and open to the public. Copies of A Life in Print are available for $14.95. Tb reserve a copy of the book or for more information about the reading and book signing, please call the Old Sperryville Bookshop at 987-8444.
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