Taylor Science Center Auditorium
The Little Pub
Root Hall 201
A.S. Byatt has been hailed by some as one of the greatest postmodern novelists in Britain. Already a formidable literary figure in England, A.S. Byatt achieved bestseller status in the United States in 1990 with her Booker Prize-winning novel Possession: A Romance, a story about a clandestine love affair between two Victorian writers and the two modern-day academics who unearth their secret; the novel was made into a film directed by Neil LaBute in 2002. Her latest novel, The Children’s Book, was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the South African Boeke Prize. In 2010, The Children’s Book won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Byatt's most recent book is Ragnarok - the End of the Gods. This program is supported in part by classmates of Eric Oatman ’61 in celebration of his life and career.
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Taylor Science Center Atrium
Taylor Science Center Atrium
Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. His first collection, Far District, won the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award. His poetry and essays have appeared in such publications as Attica, Caribbean Review of Books, and LA Review. He is an assistant professor of English at Cornell University and a Pirogue Fellow.
Taylor Science Center Atrium
Room, G041, Taylor Science Center
Kamila Shamsie '94 is the author of five novels. Her first novel, In the City by the Sea, was published in 1998 and shortlisted for the John Llewelyn Rhys/Mail on Sunday Prize. In 1999, she received the Award for Literature in Pakistan. She was selected as one of Orange's 21 writers for the 21st Century. Her most recent novel, Burnt Shadows, was shortlisted for Orange Prize for Fiction 2009 and to date has been translated into twenty languages. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Deputy President of English PEN, she grew up in Karachi, studied and taught at Hamilton College, and now lives in London.
Taylor Science Center Atrium
Julianna Baggott is the author of nineteen books which appear under her own name as well as Bridget Asher and N.E. Bode; there are over seventy-five overseas editions of her books. Most notably, she’s the author of Pure and Fuse (the first two books in the Pure trilogy), the National Bestseller Girl Talk, The Madam, and The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted, for adult readers; and The Anybodies Trilogy and The Prince of Fenway Park for younger readers; as well as three collections of poetry, including Lizzie Borden in Love. She co-wrote Which Brings Me to You with Steve Almond, A Best Book of 2006 (Kirkus Reviews).
Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, International Herald Tribune, Best American Poetry, Best Creative Nonfiction, NPR’s Talk of the Nation, All Things Considered, and Here & Now. For two years, her alter-ego, N. E. Bode was a recurring personality on XM Radio. Her work has been a People Magazine pick alongside David Sedaris and Bill Clinton, a New York Times Notable Book of 2012, a Washington Post Book of the Week, a Girl’s Life Top Ten, a Booksense selection, and a Starbucks Bookish Reading Club pick. She is an associate professor at Florida State University's College of Motion Picture Arts.
