English Department
Spring Reading Series
Scott Russell
Sanders Nonfiction Writer
When? April 13th
Where? Hawkins Conard Student Center Auditorium
Time? 4:00 PM
About Scott Russell Sanders:
Scott
Russell Sanders is the author of twenty books of fiction and nonfiction,
including Hunting for Hope and A Conservationist
Manifesto. His most recent books are Earth Works: Selected Essays (2012)
andDivine Animal: A Novel (2014). A collection of stories titled Dancing
in Dreamtime will be published in 2016, along with a new edition of
his documentary narrative, Stone Country. Among his honors are the
Lannan Literary Award, the John Burroughs Essay Award, the Mark Twain Award,
the Cecil Woods Award for Nonfiction, the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana
Authors Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National
Endowment for the Arts. In 2012 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Indiana
University. He and his wife, Ruth, a biochemist, have reared two children in
their hometown of Bloomington, in the hardwood hill country of Indiana’s White
River Valley.
Questions?
Call Kari Lindecamp at ext. 5110 or (419)289-5110
