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Author of Hawks Nest tunnel novel to host signing
HUNTINGTON -- Milton native Dwight Harshbarger launches his historical novel "Witness at Hawks Nest" on Saturday in Charleston and then has a book signing at Borders at the Huntington Mall on Sunday.
The launch will be from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday at St. John's Episcopal Church, 1105 Quarrier St., Charleston. The book signing will be from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday at Borders.
The release of the book was incorrect in Monday's edition of The Herald-Dispatch.
The book, set in the 1930s, depicts the worst industrial disaster in American history when at least 700 -- possibly up to 1,500 -- workers died of acute silicosis poisoning while digging the Hawks Nest hydro-electric tunnel for Union Carbide.
Harshbarger is adjunct professor of community medicine at West Virginia University Medical School. He served as executive director of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies (Massachusetts) and as senior vice president for Reebok International, Ltd., and vice president of Sealy, Inc. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in psychology at West Virginia University, completing his doctorate in psychology at the University of North Dakota. He published his first work of fiction, "In the Heart of the Hills: A Novel in Stories," in 2005.
The book is published by Mid-Atlantic Publishing, an imprint of the Huntington-based Publishers Place. For more information, go to www.publishersplace.org or www.witnessathawksnest.com.
