TVW host Terry Tazioli will interview noted local author, educator, and civic entrepreneur Eric Liu at 7 p.m. Nov. 8, at the Bellevue Regional Library. The public is invited to attend the interview, which is being taped for TV as an episode of TVW’s “Author’s Hour.”

Liu served as a White House speechwriter for President Bill Clinton and later as Clinton’s deputy domestic policy adviser. After the White House, he was an executive at the digital media company RealNetworks. Liu currently teaches at the UW and hosts the television interview program “Seattle Voices.”

His new book “Imagination First: Unlocking the Power of Possibility,” co-authored with Scott Noppe-Brandon, explores ways to unlock imagination in education, politics, business and the arts. Liu co-authored The True Patriot with Nick Hanauer, and together the two have created the True Patriot Network to advance the book’s ideals of progressive patriotism.  His first book, “The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker,” was a New York Times Notable Book featured in the PBS documentary “Matters of Race.”

He is also the author of “Guiding Lights: How to Mentor – and Find Life’s Purpose,” the Official Book of National Mentoring Month, and is founder of the Guiding Lights Network, a mentoring advocacy organization.

TVW’s “Author’s Hour” is a weekly book show focused on politics, public policy, history, and Pacific Northwest authors. The program airs on statewide cable TV Sundays at noon, 7 & 10 p.m. Check cable listings; TVW is Comcast channel 23 in most of Western Washington.