Sixth Annual Great Writers, Great Readings Series
2009-2010 Schedule

Patricia Hampl, is the author of many books, including A Romantic Education and – most recently – the memoir The Florist’s Daughter, winner of numerous “best” and “year end” awards, including The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2007 and the 2008 Minnesota Book Award for Memoir and Creative Nonfiction.

Frank Bidart is a renowned poet, whose most recent volumes of poetry include Watching the Spring Festival, Star Dust, Music Like Dirt, and Desire, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Craig Lucas is the author of Missing Persons, Blue Window, Reckless, Prelude to a Kiss, God’s Heart, The Dying Gaul, Stranger, Small Tragedy, The Singing Forest and Prayer for My Enemy. He also wrote the book for the musical The Light in the Piazza, for which he received a Tony Award nomination.

Mona Simpson is the author of Anywhere But Here, The Lost Father, A Regular Guy, Off Keck Road (finalist for PEN/Faulkner Prize) and the forthcoming My Hollywood (2010).

Rosanna Warren is an acclaimed poet whose most recent collection is Departure. In 2008 she published a book of literary criticism, Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry.