Summer in the City: Mari Coates on her book The Pelton Papers

August 14, 9:00 a.m. Join us in the Great Room at 9:00 a.m. Mari Coates will talk about The Pelton Papers, her richly imagined novel based on the life of the early modernist artist Agnes Pelton (1881-1961)—from her shrouded Brooklyn childhood to her early success in the Armory Show of 1913, subsequent retreat to a contemplative life in the southern California desert, and, ultimately, the flowering of Pelton’s deeply spiritual art. The talk will include slides and will leave time for questions.

Mari Coates has been a member of St. Mary’s and the parish choir for about 12 years. She was an arts writer and theater critic before joining University of California Press as a senior editor. The Pelton Papers is her first novel, published April 7, 2020, just in time for Covid-19.