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Carl Grant Events Center, Banquet Hall

Free and open to the public. Book signing to follow.

Lorrie Moore has been referred to by The New York Times as 鈥渙ne of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation.鈥� She is the author of six collections of short stories, four novels, a children鈥檚 book, and a collection of essays and criticism. Her most recent work, , is a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and a New Yorker Essential Read. Moore鈥檚 accolades include the O. Henry Award, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction, an NEA Grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Fellowship, and the Berlin Prize. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001 and to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2006, where she is currently a member of the Board of Directors. Her work has been published in over a dozen languages. Moore is the Gertrude Conway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.

Lorrie Moore