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Friday and Saturday. September 12 - 13, 2008 |
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Friday and Saturday. September 12 - 13, 2008 |
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2008 Authors
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The authors for the 2008 Spring Green Literary Festival are:
 A bona fide Midwesterner, Charles
Baxter is described by the Chicago Tribune as one of our most gifted
writers. His latest novel is The Soul Thief. It
is about a '70s-era graduate student who suspects his identity is being
appropriated. Baxter says he is always struck by the security people
think they have living in the heartland. There is this idea
that nothing can happen to us here. However, Baxter says,
life always has its claws out. It is the business of the
storyteller to show how.
Baxter teaches English at the University of Minnesota. He was born in Minneapolis and graduated from Macalester College in Saint Paul. Graduate work in English was done at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He taught for several years at Wayne State University in Detroit, later moving in 1989 to the University of Michigan--Ann Arbor and its MFA program. Baxter is the author of five novels, four collections of short stories, three collections of poems and essays on fiction. He is best known for his book The Feast of Love--a meditation on love--a comic, sexy novel that reveals loves many manifestations between ordinary people. Called a masterful novel, it was a finalist for the National Book Award. It was made into a movie in 2007, starring Morgan Freeman and Greg Kinnear. Reviewers verify that Baxter's books are luminous investigations of the prosaic--quiet, gracious, and deeply felt. DeVita is a native of Long Island, New York. By way of a community college theater program, DeVita enrolled in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he received his degree in drama. He has written more than sixteen plays and adaptations of classics for young audiences. He is resident playwright for the First Stage Theater for Youth in Milwaukee. His plays have been awarded the Distinguished Play Award by the American Alliance of Theater and Education. He is recipient of the Literature Fellowship for Fiction by the National Endowment for the Arts. The Silenced is described as a chilling dystopian novel. DeVita says his story takes place in a world where reading and writing are outlawed, where individual identity is irrelevant, where diversity is suspect and inferior, and where defiance is punished by death or worse. Moore is the author of three collections of poetry. She is the editor of Amy Lowell: Selected Poems for the Library of America. She has received awards in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and in playwriting from the New York State Council on the Arts. Her play Mourning Pictures was produced on Broadway and published in The New Women's Theatre: Ten Plays by Contemporary American Women. Moore's new book, for which she received a Guggenheim Fellowship, explores her turbulent relationship with her father, an Episcopal priest and activist bishop in Washington in the Johnson years, a leader in the civil rights and peace movements, and two decades as the bishop of New York City. The Bishop's Daughter engages the reader in the great issues of American life: war, race, family, sexuality and faith. |
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