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New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash will be the keynote speaker for The Literacy Council of Highlands’ summer fundraising event, A Celebration for Education, held Thursday, July 26. 

Ron Rash is the author of “Serena,” a bestselling novel that was made into a major motion picture in 2014 starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence.  He has written five other novels, including “One Foot in Eden,” “Saints at the River,” “The World Made Straight,” and “Above the Waterfall.”  Additionally, he has authored five collections of poems and six collections of stories, among them “Burning Bright,” which won the 2010 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award; “Chemistry and Other Stories,” which was a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award; and most recently, “Something Rich and Strange.” 

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