"As an American living in Adelaide, James was a natural," says Denise von Wald, Chief Executive of Education Adelaide. "We will be doing an Oprah Winfrey style of interview, as well as furnishing guests with complimentary copies of James's latest thriller, The Identity Factor."

According to the NAFSA website (www.nafsa.org), NAFSA "was founded in 1948 as the National Association of Foreign Student Advisers to promote the professional development of American college and university officials responsible for assisting and advising the 25,000 foreign students who had come to study in the United States after World War II." Over the years, NAFSA has grown into an international organization of educational advisers. "We'll be in Washington to showcase Adelaide as an educational destination," says Ms von Wald, "and with James being a dual American-Australian citizen who has traveled and researched his novels both here and abroad, we wanted him to speak about some of his experiences as well as share why he chooses to call Adelaide home."
 
This will be followed in the evening with a wine tasting featuring some award-winning Jacob's Creek wine." Last year's guest speaker from Adelaide was astronaut Andy Thomas.
 
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