October 9, 2006
Nonfiction Experts to Lecture at Texas Tech
A Truth in Nonfiction Symposium begins at noon tomorrow, Oct. 10, with author Gregory Wolfe in the Student Union Ballroom.
Bring your lunch. Iced tea and dessert will be provided.
Wolfe is the publisher and editor of Image and director of the Center for Religious Humanism at Seattle Pacific University. He is also writer-in-residence at the university and director of its creative writing program. Among his books are Malcolm Muggeridge: A Biography, Sacred Passion: The Art of William Schickel, and Intruding Upon the Timeless: Meditations on Faith, Art, and Mystery.
In addition to Gregory Wolfe, symposium panelists include three other accomplished authors from around the country: Mark Bowden, Dennis Covington and Brenda Wineapple. Each will give readings, attend classes and discuss their work with students, faculty and staff. All four are judges of the 2005 National Book Award in Nonfiction.
Mark Bowden, an Atlantic Monthly national correspondent, is an author, journalist, screenwriter and teacher. His book Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War was an international best seller and a finalist for the National Book Award in 1999. He is also the author of Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw. Both books have been adapted for film. His latest book, released this year, is Guests of the Ayatollah, about the Iran hostage crisis of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Texas Tech’s own Dennis Covington is the author of five books, including Lizard, which won the Delacorte Press Prize for a First Young Adult Novel, and Salvation on Sand Mountain, which was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1995 and winner of the Boston Book Review's Rea Prize for the best nonfiction book of that year.
Brenda Wineapple, the biographer of Nathaniel Hawthorne and other literary notables, is the author of Genet: A Biography of Janet Flanner; Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein; and Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Life. Her essays, articles and reviews have appeared in many publications, among them The American Scholar, the New York Times Book Review, Parnassus and The Nation.
More information on each author and a schedule of events can be found at www.presidentialseries.ttu.edu. All events are free and open to the public.
The symposium is the second event in the 2006 Presidential Lecture and Performance Series. The series is a program intended to give Texas Tech’s students, faulty and staff an enhanced experience and connect the campus and the Lubbock community. The next event in the series will be held Nov. 9, and is the President’s Book Award Panel.
Program Contacts:
Dr. Mary Jane Hurst in the Office of the President, 806-742-212.