About Lipscomb Mar. 23 - Landiss Lecture: Ron Hansen
3/23/2010
7:30 p.m.
Hansen is the best-selling author of the novels Atticus, (a finalist for the National Book Award), Mariette in Ecstasy, Desperadoes, Isn't It Romantic? along with a collection of short stories and a book for children. His novel The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award.
Exiles, Hansen's most recent book, tells the story of a tragic shipwreck that prompted Gerard Manley Hopkins to break years of "elected silence" with an outpouring of dazzling poetry. The New York Times Book Review called the book an "astonishingly deft and provocative novel, one that dramatizes the passionate inner search of religious life and makes it accessible to us in a way that only great art can do."
All programs will take place in the Doris Swang Chapel, Ezell Center, at 7:30 PM. Books by the authors will be available for purchase and autographing immediately following the lecture.
3/23/2010
7:30 p.m.
Because of the Yellow Ribbon event, the university is providing free valet parking for those attending the Landiss Lecture. The valet parking will be located in the parking area on the side of Ezell (next to Belmont Boulevard).
The spring Landiss Lecture will be held on Tuesday, March 23 at 7 p.m. in the Doris Swang Chapel in the Ezell Center. It features Ron Hansen, Gerard Manley Hopkins, S. J., Professor of Arts and Humanities at Santa Clara University. His education was at Creighton University, the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, and Stanford University, where he held the Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Fellowship. He has also received fellowships from the NEA, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Lyndhurst Foundation.Hansen is the best-selling author of the novels Atticus, (a finalist for the National Book Award), Mariette in Ecstasy, Desperadoes, Isn't It Romantic? along with a collection of short stories and a book for children. His novel The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award.
Exiles, Hansen's most recent book, tells the story of a tragic shipwreck that prompted Gerard Manley Hopkins to break years of "elected silence" with an outpouring of dazzling poetry. The New York Times Book Review called the book an "astonishingly deft and provocative novel, one that dramatizes the passionate inner search of religious life and makes it accessible to us in a way that only great art can do."
All programs will take place in the Doris Swang Chapel, Ezell Center, at 7:30 PM. Books by the authors will be available for purchase and autographing immediately following the lecture.
