Author Maxine Hong Kingston will give a literary reading at 8:30 p.m. Sept. 29 in the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland. This event is part of the Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series 2008-09 season.
Kingston is a highly acclaimed academic and writer of fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of "The Fifth Book of Peace" (Knopf, 2006), "To Be the Poet (Harvard University Press, 2002), China Men" (Knopf, 1980), and "The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts" (Knopf, 1976). She also served as editor of "Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace" (Koa Books, 2006).
The 2008-09 Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series season is cosponsored by Pitt's University Center for International Studies, Asian Studies Center, China Council Confucious Institute, Cultural Studies Program, Women's Studies Program, and Book Center and by the Carnegie Mellon University Creative Writing Program.
All events in the Writers Series are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Jeff Oaks at oaks@pitt.edu, or visit www.umc.pitt.edu/news/documents/morningreport/2008/08/wsschedule.pdf.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment