Book Signing by Vicotoria Rowell

Star of film and television and author Victoria Rowell to speak at Barnes & Noble Thursday, August 2 at 7:00 pm

Barnes & Noble, in partnership with the Department of Social Service, Cape Cod and Islands Area Office, is pleased to host a book discussion and signing with actress and author, Victoria Rowell on Thursday, August 2 at 7:00 pm.

Victoria Rowell was born a Ward of the State in Portland, Maine, the child of an unmarried Yankee blueblood mother and an unknown black father. She was raised in foster care for 18 years. Her experience in the foster-care system was nothing short of miraculous, thanks to many extraordinary women who stepped forward to love, nurture, guide, teach and challenge her. At the age of eight, she received the Ford Foundation scholarship to the Cambridge School of Ballet, and by age sixteen, she earned scholarships to both the School of American Ballet and the American Ballet Theater of New York.

Her first book, The Women Who Raised Me, is tribute not only to her foster mothers, caretakers, social service workers, friends and mentors, but to the foster system that brought them into her life as well.

Victoria Rowell is a two-time Emmy Award nominee and an eleven-time NAACP Image Award-winning actress. Her professional credits include co-starring opposite Samuel L. Jackson in Home of the Brave, Jim Carrey in Dumb & Dumber, and Eddie Murphy in The Distinguished Gentleman and Eve’s Bayou. She is well known for her roles on Diagnosis: Murder and The Young and the Restless.

Rowell is the founder of the Rowell Foster Children’s Positive Plan, which provides scholarships in the arts and education to foster and adopted youth. She serves as national spokesperson for the Annie E. Casey Foundation/Casey Family Services.

Barnes & Noble Booksellers is located in the Cape Cod Mall, 769 Iyannough Road, Hyannis. For more information, call Barnes & Noble at 508-962-6310. All events are free and open to the public.