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Renowned author to visit area
Stephen Fried at historic El Tovar

<br>Patrick Whitehurst/WGCN<br>
Author Stephen Fried during his last visit to northern Arizona earlier this year.

<br>Patrick Whitehurst/WGCN<br> Author Stephen Fried during his last visit to northern Arizona earlier this year.

Stephen Fried, author of Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West, will visit the Grand Canyon this weekend. Fried will be in the lobby of the El Tovar from 1-4 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Fried will be available for signings of his book, lectures and questions during his stay. He will be at the historic Grand Canyon Railway Depot in Williams Friday from 8-9:15 a.m. before boarding a train to the South Rim. Copies of Fried's book will be available for purchase and at the Grand Canyon South Rim gift shops. Fried lives in Philadelphia, where he teaches magazine writing at Colombia University in New York. He writes books and articles for a number of national magazines. He said he has always been fascinated with the Fred Harvey story, particularly since he visited the Grand Canyon area in the early 1990s. Fried said the Fred Harvey story has been told in small portions in lot of different places over the last 100 years, but never has it been collected in a singular tome. "Appetite for America is the first full-length biography of Fred Harvey, of his sort of revolutionary family business and how it changed America, along with their partners in the Santa Fe Railroad," Fried said, calling the Harvey story a "great American saga."


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