Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz introduces Harr for his appearance at the Wisconsin Book Festival at 4 p.m. ![]() He is, more recently, the author of The Lost Painting, which tells the story of a painting by the Baroque master Caravaggio that went missing for 200 years. Jonathan Harr, author of The Lost PaintingĪ compelling account of one community's quest for environmental justice, Jonathan Harr's 1995 best-seller, A Civil Action, won a National Book Critics Circle Award and is a cornerstone of the 2006 Wisconsin Book Festival's program track devoted to "A More Perfect Union: To Establish Justice." An epic narrative of corporate negligence, its environmental consequences and costs to human health, A Civil Action took a profound toll on Harr, who devoted nine years of his life to researching and writing it.
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