Author Visit: Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood (2024)

In conversation with Anna Katsavos, Lisa Wingate, author of the best-seller Before We Were Yours (2017), will be discussing her newest book, Shelterwood (2024). Through dual narratives set in 1909 and in 1990, this historical novel intertwines stories of child and land exploitation, escape, survival, and the pioneers who fought for justice in Oklahoma amid power-hungry land barons. The story was inspired by the bizarre reports of “elf children living in a hollow tree,” and the investigation that led to the discovery of the children’s true identities.