Columbia art professor to speak in Deer Isle

DEER ISLE – Esther Pasztory, pre-Columbian art professor at Columbia University, will give a talk and sign copies of her book “Daughter of the Pyramids,” at 6 p.m. Monday, Aug. 2, at the Chase Emerson Memorial Library in Deer Isle.

“Daughter of the Pyramids” is about a novelist who accidentally becomes her protagonist in ancient Mexico. The book explores the dilemmas of the Spanish and Colonials in Mexico and trying to reconcile Old and New Worlds.

Pasztory was 13 when she immigrated to the United States during the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. Her father was an award-winning architect and her uncle by marriage was Albert Szent-Gyorgyi who received the Nobel Prize for the discovery of vitamin C. For information, call 348-9318.