Alex Rosenberg reads from "Autumn in Oxford"

Alex Rosenberg will read from his mystery novel "Autumn in Oxford." An American academic comes to the United Kingdom in the late 1950s after being blacklisted in the United States due to his youthful commitment to racial equality and membership in the Communist Party before the war. After he is framed for a murder in Oxford, his solicitor investigates his background, interviewing historical figures such as Thurgood Marshall, Bayard Rustin, and John Hope Franklin in order to clear him of the charge.Katharine Dubois (who writes historical romance under the name Katharine Ashe) will respond.

Alex Rosenberg is R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. He is the author of a dozen books and 200 artlcles in the philosophy of science, especially biology and social sciences. He has taught in Canada and France, at Syracuse, UC Riverside, UC Santa Cruz, the University of Minnesota, and Oxford, and has held a Guggenheim, ACLS, and several NSF fellowships. He won the Lakatos Award in 1993, was the National Phi Beta Kappa Lecturer in 2006, and has been a fellow of the National Humanities Center and the Research School of Social Science at the Australian National University. In 2015, he published "The Girl From Krakow," a novel set in Europe in the period 1935-1947. "Autumn in Oxford" is his second novel.

This event is co-sponsored by the Regulator Bookshop of Durham. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing at the event.