Award-Winning Author Speaks at Baylor University's 2012 Beall-Russell Lecture
Anne Fadiman, photo courtesy of Anne Fadiman
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WACO, Texas (Sept. 28, 2012) -- Award-winning author Anne Fadiman will be the featured guest for the 2012 Beall-Russell Lecture hosted by the College of Arts & Sciences at Baylor University at 3 p.m. Monday, Oct. 1, in Room 510 in the Cashion Building of the Hankamer School of Business, 1428 S. Fifth St.
Fadiman has written several books and collections of essays, including the best-selling Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader. She won a National Book Critics' Circle Award for her book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, which was also chosen by the Young Adult Library Association as one of its recommended titles for all students. Her essays and articles have appeared in notable publications such as Harper's, The New Yorker and The New York Times. She served as editor for The American Scholar for seven years. Fadiman is the inaugural Francis Writer in Residence at Yale University, where she teaches English and mentors students considering careers in writing or editing.
"Anne Fadiman combines her personal, seemingly ordinary experiences (like moving or being a mother or traveling) with wide-ranging allusions to authors (from Jane Austen to Livy), weaving through her essays truths about life in a style that amuses and inspires us," said Mary Lynn Klingman, Ph.D., an English professor and the director of the Writing Center in the College of Arts & Sciences at Baylor. "We hope students will appreciate her clever style and warm appreciation for reading as they hear her speak."
For further information about the Beall-Russell Lectures in the Humanities, please visit www.baylor.edu/beall-russell .
by Brent Salter, student newswriter, (254) 710-6805
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