Visiting Author - John T. Price - Goethe’s Oak: A Holocaust Story
Date and Time
- Saturday, Nov 22, 2025 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Location
Francie & Finch Bookshop
130 S. 13th St.
Category
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Join us as author John T. Price visits Francie & Finch Bookshop and reads from his newest work of non-fiction, Goethe's Oak: A Holocaust Story.
“A tree that thinks — most of us would imagine this impossible. Yet in Goethe’s Oak, John Price has created a compassionate, compelling, and utterly believable narrator. Its story is a meditation on nature, loss, rebirth, and time. Most of all, it’s a treatise on how to be human.”—Hope Edelman, The AfterGrief
Order your copy of the book HERE!
About the Book:
Writing from the perspective of the legendary Goethe’s Oak, John T. Price reimagines and honors the life of an extraordinary tree. Drawing on centuries of human remembrances, from the tree’s namesake, writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, to prisoners at Buchenwald in the 1940s, Price intertwines their stories with recent scientific research into the underground communication networks of trees. Goethe’s Oak offers readers a poignant yet inspiring picture of nature’s ability to comfort. (icecubepress.com)
About the Author:
John T. Price is the award-winning author of four books of creative nonfiction, most recently All is Leaf: Essays and Transformations (2022), and Goethe’s Oak: A Holocaust Story (2025). He is also editor of The Tallgrass Prairie Reader (2014)—the first nature writing anthology entirely dedicated to the tallgrass environment. A recipient of a prose fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, his work has been featured in numerous journals, magazines, and anthologies. He teaches at The University of Nebraska at Omaha, where he directs the English Department’s Creative Nonfiction Writing Program.
