VISITING WRITERS SERIES
FALL 1997

Times & Locations Vary - Click on Event for Further Information
TOBIAS WOLFF
Novelist, Short Story Writer and Memoirist
Author of This Boy's Life, In Pharaoh's Army, The Night in Question
September 16
(Tuesday)
STEVEN MILLHAUSER
1997 Pulitzer Prize Winning Novelist
Author of Martin Dressler, In the Penny Arcade, Edwin Mullhouse
September 25
(Thursday)
DOUGLAS BAUER, Novelist
Mini-workshop on GETTING THE NOVEL PUBLISHED
Author of Dexterity, The Very Air, and The Book of Famous Iowans
October 7
(Tuesday)
PAUL METCALF
Novelist and Experimental Fiction Writer
Author of Genoa, Middle Passage, Collected Works 1956-96
October 8
(Wednesday)

Caribbean Spotlight: A Dual Reading

MAYRA MONTERO, Novelist
Author of In the Palm of Darkness
BARBARA FISCHKIN, Journalist
Author of Muddy Cup: A Dominican Family Comes of Age in a New America

October 14
(Tuesday)
JONATHAN KOZOL
Educator and Nonfiction Writer
Author of Death at an Early Age, Savage Inequalities, Amazing Grace, Illiterate America, and Rachel and Her Children
October 17
(Friday)
BLANCHE McCRARY BOYD
Novelist and Nonfiction Writer
Author of Terminal Velocity, The Revolution of Little Girls, The Redneck Way of Knowledge
October 23
(Thursday)
AMOS OZ
Israeli Novelist and Essayist
Author of Black Box, To Know a Woman, Under This Blazing Light
October 28
(Tuesday)

The Art of Political Biography
PAUL GRONDAHL
Biographer and Journalist
Author of Mayor Corning: Albany Icon, Albany Egnima
CARY REICH
Biographer
Author of Financier: The Biography of Andre Meyer and The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller
November 5
(Wednesday)

November 6
(Thursday)

DON DeLILLO
Novelist
Author of Underworld, End Zone, Ratner's Star, White Noise, Libra
November 12
(Wednesday)
JESSICA HAGEDORN
Novelist and Poet
Author of Dogeaters
November 18
(Tuesday)
JAMES SALTER
Novelist
Author of A Sport and A Pastime, Light Years, Solo Faces, Dusk and Other Stories
December 4
(Thursday)

NYS Poet & Author Reading
JANE COOPER, New York State Poet, 1995-97
Author of The Weather of Six Mornings, Maps & Windows, Scaffolding: Selected Poems, and Green Notebook, Winter Road
PETER MATTHIESSEN, New York State Author, 1995-97
Author of Killing Mister Watson, At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Far Tortuga, and The Snow Leopard
Joint reading at the 92nd Street Y in New York City

December 15
(Monday)