Authors@Acadia presents Kate Beaton
Tuesday February 25, 2025 7pm - 8pm (1 Hour)
Lecture / Seminar Literary All Ages
Event in Room: Room 10
Kate Beaton was born in Nova Scotia, took a history degree in New Brunswick, paid it off in Alberta, worked in a museum in British Columbia, then went to Ontario to draw pictures, followed by New York, Toronto, and back once again to rural Nova Scotia. She is best known for her comic strip Hark! A Vagrant, and her best-selling graphic memoir Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands which was a New York Times Notable book, one of Barack Obama’s favorite books, and Winner of Canada Reads 2023.
Event in Room: Room 10
Kate Beaton was born in Nova Scotia, took a history degree in New Brunswick, paid it off in Alberta, worked in a museum in British Columbia, then went to Ontario to draw pictures, followed by New York, Toronto, and back once again to rural Nova Scotia. She is best known for her comic strip Hark! A Vagrant, and her best-selling graphic memoir Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands which was a New York Times Notable book, one of Barack Obama’s favorite books, and Winner of Canada Reads 2023.
Admission
Pricing: Free
Huggins Science Hall
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