Saturday, October 18 | 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Venue: Wisconsin Historical Society/Library Mall
Presented by the UW-Madison Creative Writing Program
Venue: Wisconsin Historical Society/Library Mall
Presented by the UW-Madison Creative Writing Program
Marilynne Robinson and Wisconsin's own Ron Wallace share the stage. New York Times book reviewer James Wood writes that Robinson's words "have a spiritual force that’s very rare in contemporary fiction." Her latest novel, Home, is a companion piece to her Pulitzer Prize winning second novel, Gilead. Home has just been named a National Book Award finalist. She also wrote the highly acclaimed novel Housekeeping, which won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN award for best first novel in 1980.
The late poet and writing teacher Richard Hugo wrote that Ron Wallace's poems "ring with validity." Like Hugo, Wallace is an accomplished poet and remarkable teacher. He is also the founder and co-director of the creative writing program at UW-Madison, where he edits the Brittingham and Pollak poetry series. His poetic work is extensive and includes the collections For A Limited Time Only and Long for this World: New & Selected Poems.
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