HONESDALE, PA — Award-winning, internationally known author Suzanne Fisher Staples will speak after a buffet-style luncheon arranged by the Wayne County Public Library on Thursday, April 9 at 12 noon. The event will be held at the Hotel Wayne at the corner of Park and Main streets. Staples will speak about her novels set in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The author of nine novels will explain how her career took her as a young reporter and editor to these two Asian nations as well as to Hong Kong, India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Her talk will be illustrated with slides. Books-a-Million, a national book retail company with a branch in Dickson City, PA, will offer copies of some of her books for sale. The author will sign each of the books sold.

“Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind,” which won her a Newbery Honor Book Award, is the story of a strong-willed and independent young woman growing up among nomadic camel herders in modern Pakistan. Tickets costing $20 each are available only in advance at the Wayne County Public Library, 1406 N. Main St., Honesdale with a deadline for purchase of April 6. For credit card purchase, call 570/253-1220. This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Library, with all proceeds going to the library.