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Novelist and short-story writer Bobbie Ann Mason, poet Galway Kinnell, and nonfiction writer James Barilla will be the featured writers at the University's annual Fall Festival of Authors in October.
The authors will read from their works and sign books. The events, which are free and open to the public, will take place at 6 p.m. in the School of Law Auditorium. Mason will be featured Oct. 18; Kinnell, Oct. 23, and Barilla, Oct. 30.
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| Bobbie Ann Mason |
For more information, contact the Thomas Cooper Library at 7-3142 or go to www.sc.edu/library/fall
festival.html.
Mason, writer-in-residence at the University of Kentucky, has won numerous awards for her fiction. Shiloh and Other Stories won the PEN/Hemingway Award for first fiction. Her short- story collection, Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail, and her novel, Feathers, won the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. Her novel, In Country, which has been a staple on advanced-placement student reading lists since its release in 1985, was made into a movie in 1989.
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| Galway Kinnell |
Kinnell's Selected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and his New Selected Poems was a National Book Award finalist. Active in the political movement of the 1960s, Kinnell has said he was inspired by the poetry of Edgar Allen Poe and Emily Dickinson and addresses socio-political topics, as well as themes of death, love, and New England in his poetry. Kinnell was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing at New York University and a chancellor of the American Academy of Poets. The Providence, R.I., native is retired and lives in Vermont and New York City.
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| James Barilla |
Barilla's West with the Rise: Fly-fishing Across America chronicles his travels from New England to Northern California, detailing fly-fishing and his inner thoughts and feelings about starting a family. Released in 2006, West with the Rise is Barilla's first book. He earned a master's degree from the University of Montana and a doctoral degree from the University of California at Davis and will join the University's faculty this fall. He teaches creative nonfiction writing and literature.
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