YPL Presents: An Author Talk With Gregg Hurwitz

Join author Gregg Hurwitz as he discusses his Orphan X series of thrillers and his career as a bestselling writer.

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Orphan X, the series opener, introduces the Nowhere Man, a legendary figure spoken about only in whispers. It’s said that when he’s reached by the desperate and deserving, the Nowhere Man can and will do anything to protect and save them.

But he’s not merely a legend. Evan Smoak is a man with skills, resources, and a personal mission to help those with nowhere else to turn. He’s also a man with a dangerous past. Taken from a group home at 12, Evan was raised and trained as part of the Orphan Program, an off-the-books operation designed to create "deniable intelligence assets"—i.e., assassins. He broke with the Program, using everything he learned to disappear and reinvent himself as the Nowhere Man.

The YPL Presents: Virtual Author series is funded and supported by the Foundation for the Yonkers Public Library.

About the Author: GREGG HURWITZ is the New York Times #1 internationally bestselling author of 24 thrillers including the Orphan X series. His novels have won numerous literary awards and have been published in 33 languages. Gregg currently serves as the Co-President of International Thriller Writers (ITW). Additionally, he’s written screenplays and television scripts for many of the major studios and networks, comics for AWA (including the critically acclaimed anthology NewThink), DC, and Marvel, and poetry. Currently, Gregg is actively working against polarization in politics and culture. To that end, he's penned op-eds for The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Bulwark, Salon, and others, and has produced several hundred commercials and creative content which have gotten several hundred million views on digital TV platforms. He also helped write the opening ceremony of the 2022 World Cup.