Susan Orlean
![Susan Orlean photo](https://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/sites/www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/files/styles/teaser/public/media/madreads/susan%20orlean.jpg?itok=bj0ifVem)
At the 2018 Cheryl Rosen Weston Memorial Lecture, Susan Orlean, hailed as a “national treasure” by The Washington Post and the acclaimed bestselling author of Rin Tin Tin and The Orchid Thief, reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, and delivers a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution—our libraries.