Literary Legends 2017

The 2017 Literary Legends Gala took place at the Bach Branch of the Albany Pubic Library on October 21st, 2017. At this event, local author Athena V. Lord was honored.  [Photos]

Lord was born in Cohoes, NY in 1932 to a Greek immigrant family. She then moved moved to Albany, just around the corner from the old Harmanus Bleecker Library, at age six. A voracious reader as a child, the library quickly became a second home for her. Writing was always a vocation for her and so when she graduated from high school at only sixteen, she immediately applied for a scholarship to Vassar College, where she would later graduate from with a degree in creative writing.

Lord became a published author with books ranging from biography to historical fiction. She published five books total in her life which are as follows: Pilot for Spaceship Earth: R. Buckminster Fuller, Architect, Inventor, and Poet (1978),  A Spirit to Ride the Whirlwind (1981), Today’s Special: Z.A.P. and Zoe (1984), The Luck of Z.A.P. and Zoe (1987), and Z.A.P., Zoe, and the Musketeers (1992).