Thursday, November 21 at 2:00 PM
Journalist and Author Susan Kellam: Brilliant Disguise

Journalist and author Susan Kellam will present a book talk and discussion about her newly-released memoir, Brilliant Disguise. Susan’s engaging memoir winds together her rock-and-roll odyssey with an exploration of her brother Robert’s too-brief life.

Susan Kellam started her career at Rolling Stone magazine when typewriters were still being flung across offices. Eventually leaving the rock-and-roll world for straight journalism, she received a 1985 Folio Award for a three-part series in The New York Times, “Battling for a Prize: Radio Station License.” Her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, Washingtonian magazine, Congressional Quarterly, The Baltimore Sun, and more.

She finished her full-time career as senior communications expert on domestic policy at the Brookings Institution. The Obama administration tapped her to edit the Economic Report of the President for the four years of his second term; the Biden administration did the same for his first year. Susan was a contributing writer on the book, How Ten Global Cities Take on Homelessness (May 2021, University of California Press). She lives on a salt-water farm in Maine with two rambunctious dogs.

Learn more about Susan and read her most recent articles at www.susan-kellam.com.

FMI or for Zoom links, please email elewis@rocklandmaine.gov.