Scott Russell Sanders to Read on April 13
Creative Writer’s Speaker Series Event
Scott Russell Sanders, winner of the prestigious Lannan Literary Award and the Great Lakes Book Award, will be the final speaker in the 2005-06 Creative Writer’s Speaker Series at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
Sanders will speak at 6 p.m. on Thursday, April 13, in the worship space of Smith Chapel. An author reception will precede the reading at 4:30 p.m. in the chapel’s upper-level lobby. Both are free and open to the public.
Sanders’ newest book, published earlier this year, is the memoir “A Private History of Awe.” He is the author of 18 books, including works of fiction, personal nonfiction, children’s storybooks, and many collections of essays, including “Writing from the Center,” “Staying Put,” “Secrets of the Universe,” “The Paradise of Bombs” and “The Force of Spirit.”
Sanders is Distinguished Professor of English at Indiana University, where he has taught since 1971. He has served as writer-in-residence at Phillips Exeter Academy and as a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is the recipient of writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Indiana Arts Commission, the Lilly Endowment, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is former literary editor of The Cambridge Review, fiction editor of The Minnesota Review, and new fiction columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times.
The Creative Writer’s Speaker Series is co-sponsored by the Clarence and Eugenie Baumann Smith Fund and the Penn State Behrend School of Humanities and Social Sciences. For more information about the series, contact the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at 814-898-6108.