Please join us for the Fall 2008 Speakers series!
Tim O’Brien“An Evening with Tim O’Brien”
October 23, Old Main, 7:00 p.m.
Tim O’Brien has been hailed as “the best American writer of his generation” (San Francisco Chronicle. ) The author of eight books, O’Brien received the National Book Award in Fiction in 1979 for his novel, Going After Cacciato. The French edition of his The Things They Carried received the prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, and the title story was selected by John Updike for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories of the Century. Tim O’Brien holds the Roy F. and Joann Cole Mitte Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Texas State University.
Book signing following the presentation.
Sponsored by Ames/Milner Visiting Author Program
Arthur Levine“An Evening with Dr. Arthur Levine”
November 18, Alumni Center, 7:00 p.m.
Levine is currently the President of The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. He has served as consultant to more than 250 colleges and universities, and he currently sits on the Boards of Blackboard, Inc., and the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities. Levine’s writing frequently appears in such publications as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal , and The Chronicle of Higher Education . His most recent book is When Hope and Fear Collide: A Portrait of Today’s College Student (with Jeanette S. Cureton), published in 1998.
Book signing following the presentation.
Sponsored by the College of Education
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Elie Wiesel“An Evening with Elie Wiesel”
October 7, Braden Auditorium, 7:00 p.m.
Nobel Peace Prize-winner and Boston University professor Elie Wiesel has worked on behalf of oppressed people for much of his adult life. His personal experience of the Holocaust has led him to use his talents as an author, teacher and storyteller to defend human rights and peace throughout the world. Wiesel’s efforts have earned him the United States Congressional Gold Medal, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Medal of Liberty to name a few. He has authored more than fifty books that won numerous awards. In 1956 Wiesel wrote the book, Night, to end his silence about what he endured as an inmate in the death camps.
Book signing following the presentation.
Sponsored by The Sage Fund
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