Author Talk with Ron Currie at the Ellsworth Public Library

Meet award-winning Maine author Ron Currie, whose novel The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne is set in Waterville and currently developed as a Netflix series with Matt and Ross Duffer, creators of Stranger Things, and in August he was shortlisted for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award 2026.

Ron Currie is the author of four novels and one collection of short stories. He has won the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Library Association's Alex Award, and the Pushcart Prize.

His books have been translated into fifteen languages, and his short fiction and nonfiction have received recognition in Best American anthologies.

As a screenwriter he worked most recently on the Apple TV+ series Extrapolations and has developed projects with AMC Studios, Amblin Television, and ITV America. He lives in Portland, Maine and teaches in the University of Southern Maine Stonecoast MFA program. 

Come hear Currie talk about his work, writing, and Maine-set fiction.