Best-selling author Virginia Evans to speak at Lanier Library

Best-selling author Virginia Evans to speak at Lanier Library

TRYON—Before Virginia Evans’s “The Correspondent” became a New York Times #1 Best Seller, she received a handwritten invitation from Jenny Purtill, executive director of Lanier Library. At the time, Evans was still navigating the uncertainty of a long writer’s journey, and Purtill was taking a chance on what was technically a debut author. Though “The Correspondent” is Evans’s ninth completed manuscript, the first eight had gone unsold. One was …