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Events
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
7 p.m.
Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater
Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor
South Campus
Patricia Hampl’s most recent book is The Florist’s Daughter, winner of numerous “best” and “year end” awards, including The New York Times “100 Notable Books of the Year” and the 2008 Minnesota Book Award for Memoir and Creative Nonfiction. Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime, published in 2006 and now in paperback, was also one of the Times “Notable Books”; a portion was chosen as The Best Spiritual Writing for 2005.
Ms. Hampl first won recognition for A Romantic Education, for which she was awarded a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship. This book and subsequent works have established her as an influential figure in the rise of autobiographical writing over the past 25 years.
She is the author as well of two collections of poetry, Woman Before an Aquarium, and Resort and Other Poems. Additionally she published Spillville, a meditation on Antonin Dvorak’s 1893 summer in Iowa, with engravings by Steven Sorman. Virgin Time, about her Catholic upbringing and an inquiry into contemplative life, is available in paperback. I Could Tell You Stories, her collection of essays on memory and imagination, was a finalist in 2000 for the National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction.
She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Bush Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts (twice), Ingram Merrill Foundation, and Djerassi Foundation. In 1990 she was awarded the esteemed MacArthur Fellowship.
Ms. Hampl teaches in the English Department’s M.F.A. program at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. She is also a member of the permanent faculty of the Prague Summer Program.