Coffee with Friends

Claire Arbogast

This month, featured author Claire Arbogast will talk about her books, "If Not the Whole Truth" and "Leave the Dogs at Home." Age 18 and up.

The daughter of florists and granddaughter of a prolific gardener, Claire Arbogast was born in 1950. She grew up among the winding streets and deep front porches of historic Irvington on the east side of Indianapolis. But her life took a wide turn as books and the times challenged her limited perspective of the world. This questioning wove its way into her very fiber, leading her to try on different ways to live, different ways to love, and different ways to write with the hope of opening up conversations and attitudes.

After a few years of exploring (southern Indiana, Chicago, California, The Farm in Tennessee, Albuquerque, touring the country in a handmade camper, Fort Worth, and a couple winters in Alaska), she earned a degree in journalism from Indiana University Bloomington and went on to work in communications, living in Fort Wayne, Bloomington, and Cincinnati. These days, she gardens and writes in Bloomington, Indiana, relishing every sweet day with a thirst for sorting, rejecting, and adapting to the infinite stream of ideas that flow into our lives. 

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