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July 12,2025 at 11:00 AM at Yocum Institute
Cynthia Eggert, PhD on Living in the Historical World
Our author will share her years of experience "inhabiting" historic Britain, while using technology to complete research and write her multiple novels in their different stages of completion, simultaneously! Afterward, she will lead the group in a writing prompt, designed to help envision themselves or fictional people in a different time and place.
Cynthia Eggert, PhD, complimented her BA in English from Albright College with minors in Art History and History. While pursuing her PhD in English at Drew University (NJ), she taught English/Writing at Seton Hall and Rutgers Universities, as well as various other NJ colleges, and at Dominican College after completing her dissertation. While a college senior, she began writing a series of historical novels that follow several families and their retainers (hired help) in Sussex, UK, from 1816 to the present day. Her first novel, Shadow in the Sun (Xlibris), was published in 2001, under her nom de plume, Alex Hughes-Walton. Cynthia retired from teaching in 2004 to become a full-time novelist and co-mother to active Welsh Terriers. A second novel was completed in 2009, just before family and personal events took precedence, and her usually prolific and available characters and plot lines abandoned her. Now, healing and surrounded by family and friends in her hometown again, Cynthia's writing continues as the final edit of the second novel is completed, the plot thickens deeply into the third novel, and the fourth novel has sprouted 400 pages.
A Reading native, who went from kindergarten through college on 13th Street, Cynthia returned in 2022 after residing in New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts while studying, teaching and writing. She enjoys literature, music, cinema, theatre, history, dance, art, sports and travel.