Presenter David Guterson’s debut novel, Snow Falling on Cedars, was published in 1994, becoming an immediate bestseller and winner of the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The novel, which seamlessly blended courtroom suspense with historical reckoning and emotional depth, was adapted to film in 1999 and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography.

A Q&A session with David Guterson will following the showing.