English Events
[PAST EVENT] Book Talk with Bruce Holsinger
Location
Williamsburg Regional Library, 515 Scotland St, Williamsburg, VA 23185Access & Features
- Open to the public
William & Mary is once again working with the Williamsburg Regional Library for the One Book, One Community program. This year's selection is Bruce Holsinger's novel, The Displacements, which follows a family that has lost their home and been "displaced" after a category 6 hurricane. Free copies of his title are available at the Swem Library, or it can be downloaded from the Williamsburg Regional Library.
About the author:
Bruce Holsinger is the author of four novels, including The Displacements and The Gifted School, and many works of nonfiction. His books have been recognized with the Colorado Book Award, the John Hurt Fisher Prize, the Philip Brett Award, the John Nicholas Brown Prize, the Modern Language Association’s Prize for a First Book, and others. He has written for The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and many other publications and has been interviewed on NPR’s Weekend Edition, Here & Now, and Marketplace. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He teaches in the Department of English at the University of Virginia, where he specializes in medieval literature and modern critical thought and serves as editor of the quarterly journal New Literary History.
Sponsored by: W&M Libraries & the Friends of Williamsburg Regional Library Foundation
Contact
[[jgood, Joanna Good]]