Marianne Fons - Lecture/Book Signing

Marianne Fons
Winterset, IA

Marianne Fons is known to millions of quilters as the former co-host of "Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting" nationwide on Public TV. With Liz Porter, She authored QUILTER'S COMPLETE GUIDE, one of the most popular quilting books of all time, and taught and lectured about quilts coast to coast for twenty years.

Her debut novel, THE DRESSMAKER OF WINTERSET, an homage to THE SCARLET LETTER, set in Winterset, Iowa, in the 1950s, will be in print on March 3, 2027, from Union Square & Company, a Hachette imprint.

In her small town of Winterset, IA, Marianne spearheaded the establishment of the Iowa Quilt Museum in 2016 and the renovation of the Iowa Theater in 2017. In 2022, she was named Madison County Citizen of the Year. Her Substack column, "Reporting from Quiltropolis," offers slice-of-small-town-life snapshots of quilty goings-on in Winterset and beyond.