Smithtown Author Jeb Ladouceur To Speak At Hofstra University

Jeb LadouceurSmithtown novelist, Jeb Ladouceur, has been invited to speak at Hofstra University. According to the author’s publicist, Debbie Lange Fifer, Ladouceur will join LTV executive producer Linda Maria Frank in a presentation addressing current trends in publishing. The occasion will mark the local writer’s third speaking engagement at the renowned institution, and Ms. Frank’s first.

Long associated intimately with the arts, Hofstra is the alma mater of such notables as motion picture director Francis Ford Coppola, actress Lainie Kazan, and Tony award-winner Madeline Kahn. The university is world-famous for its Shakespearian studies program and is the home of a magnificent replica of the Globe Theater in London, where many of The Bard’s works were introduced.

Numbered among Hofstra’s literary alumni are Long Island novelists Nelson DeMille and Marilyn French, as well as noted New York Times journalist George Vecsey.

Authors DeMille and Ladouceur have often shared the same lecterns as guest speakers at Hempstead’s Hofstra venue and at Huntington’s esteemed Book Revue bookstore. Nelson DeMille appeared there earlier this month to promote his new book, THE QUEST, and Jeb Ladouceur follows Monday’s Hofstra appearance with a speech and signing at Book Revue on Thursday, Oct. 17^th at 7:30. He will introduce his eighth novel, THE DEALER, at that time.