Award-winning novelist and short story writer Ann Beattie is the first speaker in the fifth season of Hofstra University's “Great Writers, Great Readings" series. Her reading will take place on Monday, September 15, at 7 p.m. at the Guthart Cultural Center Theater, located on the first floor of the Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library on the South Campus.
Ms. Beattie's first novel, 1976's Chilly Scenes of Winter was made into a film, followed by Falling in Place; Love Always; Picturing Will; Another You; My Life, Starring Dara Falcon; and The Doctor's House. Her short story collections are Distortions, Secrets and Surprises, The Burning House, Where You'll Find Me, What Was Mine, Park City: New and Selected Stories, Perfect Recall and Follies: New Stories.
This event is free and open to the public. For information, please call ( 516 ) 463-5410 or visit www.hofstra.edu/gwgr.
Ann Beattie received the Award in Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters and was later inducted as a member of that organization. She is also a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story and the Rea Award for the Short Story. Her stories have been included in four volumes of O. Henry Award collections.
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