This coming Tuesday evening, March 17, from 6:30 to 8:00, Brooklyn Heights resident author Elizabeth Gaffney will have a book talk about her novel, When the World Was Young, the story of a young woman growing up in the Heights in the middle of the twentieth century. The event will take place in the Brooklyn […]
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Heights Author Elizabeth Gaffney at Brooklyn Heights Library Tuesday Evening
By Claude Scales on March 14, 2015 10:48 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Events, Literature

Elizabeth Gaffney, at BHS, Reads, Talks About Bygone Brooklyn Heights
By Claude Scales on August 6, 2014 5:36 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn History, Celebrity Residents, Literature
Novelist and Brooklyn Heights resident Elizabeth Gaffney was at the Brooklyn Historical Society yesterday evening to read from her second novel, When the World Was Young, on the date of its publication by Random House. She read two segments of the novel. The first told how a physician forced to give up her career because […]

Heights Author Elizabeth Gaffney to Speak at Brooklyn Historical Society Tuesday August 5
By Claude Scales on July 28, 2014 1:07 am in Arts and Entertainment, Celebrity Residents, Literature
Brooklyn Heights resident and novelist Elizabeth Gaffney will be at the Brooklyn Historical Society Tuesday August 5 starting at 7:00 to discuss her second novel, When the World Was Young, which is to be released for publication that day. Set in post-World War II Brooklyn, this powerful story follows misfit Wally Baker as she comes […]
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