My Name Is Allen White: Sally J. McMillan in Conversation with Lynn Olson

Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum celebrates the release of Folio member and author Sally J. McMillan's debut novel, My Name Is Allen White, available to purchase at the event. Sally will be in conversation with Folio member and award winning writer Lynn Olson.

Allen White was taught to be a believer. Instead, he became a nuclear physicist, astrophotographer, and musician.Raised in a faith community that discouraged questions, Allen’s inquiries took him places that his church and his father could not tolerate.

Narrated by Allen himself at age thirty-three, My Name Is Allen White unfolds across three pivotal discoveries, each one a wonder, each one a wound. The upheavals of mid-twentieth-century America provide an expansive backdrop to Allen’s personal challenges. But his great controversy unfolds in the narrow foreground of home.

Sally J. McMillan spent twenty-two years at the University of Tennessee, where she was a professor of communication, department head, associate dean, and…