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January 20, 2024
Special guest appearance with author Cameron Kent
Saturday, January 20, 2024, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Oak Island Book Club
By Cameron Kent
Please join us for an author talk and book signing with Cameron Kent on Saturday, January 20, 2024. Cameron will be discussing his new mystery book, The Oak Island Book Club.
About the Author:
Cameron Kent grew up in Alexandria, Virginia, the son of an Air Force General. After graduating from Wake Forest University, he embarked on a career in television journalism that spanned nearly 40 years. He received 14 Emmy nominations for his work in broadcasting, and won an Emmy for his reporting on the Pentagon after 9/11. He devoted much of his reporting to military veterans, chronicling their stories from the battlefields of World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Cameron is the author of five books: Make Me Disappear, When the Ravens Die, The Road to Devotion, The Sea is Silent, and The Oak Island Book CLub. He also has four films among his credits: Nightrangers, Seduced and Betrayed, The Witness Files, and Twist of Fate. The Road to Devotion is currently in development for a feature film. In addition, he’s written a Christmas musical, Welcome to Virginia, which premiered in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in 2017.
In his spare time, Cameron enjoys travel, playing the guitar, and any outdoor activity. He’s an avid runner, having completed seven marathons, including the Boston Marathon in 2009. He’s also an active volunteer with Habitat for Humanity.
He currently resides in Winston-Salem, but spends as much time as possible at his cabin on the lake.
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Paul is a Winston-Salem native, a graduate of R.J. Reynolds High School and Wake Forest University, where he got his first taste of the media as an announcer for the student-run station, WAKE Radio. He has earned advanced degrees in liberal arts and journalism/mass communications from Johns Hopkins University and UNC-Chapel Hill. Paul has worked as a journalist for 30 years. Locally he has worked for The High Point Enterprise, the News & Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal. Paul has been affiliated with 88.5 FM WFDD, public radio for the Piedmont and High Country, for the last 10 years. He also currently serves as an adjunct professor of the practice in Journalism at Wake Forest University.