Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 11:15 a.m.

Vivian Gornick

Vivian Gornick is an acclaimed writer of nonfiction and a former Guggenheim Fellow whose books have been nominated for two National Book Critics Circle Awards and a National Book Award. Her body of work includes Fierce Attachments: A Memoir, dealing with her relationship to her mother; The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative; Approaching Eye Level; Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life; The Men in My Life: Critical Essay;, The Solitude of Self: Thinking About Elizabeth Cady Stanton; and The End of the Novel of Love. A former staff writer on The Village Voice, herarticles and reviews have appeared in The Nation, The New York Times Book Review and Magazine, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, Bookforum, and The Threepenny Review.

Location:
Rochelle and Irwin A. Lowenfeld Conference and Exhibition Hall
10th Fl, Axinn Library, South Campus
photo by Esther Hyneman

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