| Tracy Kidder Wednesday, March 22 7:00pm - 9:00pm Miller Auditorium Dearlove Hall |
Tracy Kidder, a "master of clarion nonfiction," has become required reading in creative non-fiction programs across the nation. His most recet book, My Detachment (Random House, 2005), differs from his other six books in that it is about his own experience in Vietnam. He Graduated from Harvard, studied at the University of Iowa, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Soul of a Machine, the National Book Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Award. This reading is being co-sponsored by Crandall Library in Glens Falls. |
| Marge Piercy Tuesday, April 04 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Miller Auditorium Dearlove Hall |
The volume of Marge Piercy's ouvre alone is staggering, including 14 books of poetry and 17 novels, such as the New York Times bestseller Gone to Soldiers and the national bestseller The Longings of Women.She will deliver a lecture on her most recent book, Sex Wars, an astonishing historical novel of gender, power and the American Dream set in 19th century New York City and based on the lives of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the like. The Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in the United Kingdom and the Sheaffer-PEN/New England Award for Literary Excellence are two among the many she has received. This reading is being co-sponsored by Crandall Library in Glens Falls. |
| Thai Jones Saturday, May 20 Library Auditorium Crandall Library |
Thai Jones's father, Jeff Jones, was a member of the famous Weather Underground, a radical political group that waged low-level war against the United State government in protest of racism and the Vietnam War. Jones, a former reporter for New York Newsday, has written a family history that traces three generations of political activists in his book A Radical Line: From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground, One Family's Century of Conscience (Free Press, 2004). |