Faculty Author Lynn Powell to Read at the Oberlin Bookstore

Join faculty author Lynn Powell, author of Framing Innocence: A Mother's Photographs, a Prosecutor's Zeal, and a Small Town's Response for a reading, book signing and refreshments at the Oberlin Bookstore on Saturday, November 13 from 3:30-5pm.

Framing Innocence is a beautifully told true story that plumbs the perfect storm of events and people that threatened a loving family here in Oberlin. Featuring a determined prosecutor, a fundamentalist Christian anti-porn crusader, the family that finds itself under siege, the local attorneys for whom the case would become a crucible, and the many neighbors - friends and strangers, Republican and Democrat - who come together to fight for sanity and for justice, Framing Innocence is as riveting as it is memorable.

Ten years ago, amateur photographer and school bus driver Cynthia Stewart dropped off eleven rolls of film at a drugstore near her home in Oberlin, OH. The rolls contained photographs of her eight-year-old daughter Nora, including two of the child in the shower—photos that would cause the county prosecutor to arrest Cynthia, take her away in handcuffs, threaten to remove her daughter from her home, and charge her with crimes that carried the possibility of sixteen years in prison.

The disturbing case would ultimately attract national attention—including stories in USA Today and on NPR—and supporters including the famed photographer Sally Mann, Katha Pollitt, and the ACLU.

Lynn Powell is a visiting professor in the Creative Writing Program, teaching the Nonfiction Workshop. She is the author of two books of poetry, Old & New Testaments and The Zones of Paradise, and has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council.

Oberlin Bookstore

37 West College Street

Oberlin, OH 44074

440.774.7722