20242025 Season
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Fall 2024
Phillips, Carl (Oct 28)
van den Berg, Laura (Nov 14)
Spring 2025
Bump, Gabriel (Feb 20)
McLane, Maureen (Apr 3)
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Laura van den Berg
Humanities Center, Conference Room D, Rush Rhees Library
November 14, 2024, 5:00 PM
Laura van den Berg was born and raised in Florida. She is the author of five works of fiction, including The Third Hotel, a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, one of Time Magazine’s 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bard Fiction Prize, a PEN/O. Henry Award, and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and is a two-time finalist for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Laura is currently a Senior Lecturer on Fiction at Harvard. Her latest novel, State of Paradise, is was published by FSG in July 2024. She lives in the Hudson Valley.