The Modern Novel Lecture with Mary Doria Russell

The Modern Novel Lecture with Mary Doria Russell

September 14th, 2010 (7:00PM)

Reading Room

$15 for members, $20 for non-members (or free with your Chic.lit membership)

 

MARY DORIA RUSSELL is the author of  The Sparrow, Children of God, A Thread of Grace, and Dreamers of the Day. Her novels have won nine national and international literary awards, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the American Library Association Readers Choice Award. The Sparrow was selected as one of Entertainment Weekly’s ten best books of the year, and A Thread of Grace  was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

 

Ms. Russell was born in suburban Chicago in 1950. Her mother was a Navy nurse and her father was a Marine Corps drill sergeant. She and her younger brother Richard consequently developed a dismaying vocabulary at an early age. She learned discretion at Sacred Heart Catholic elementary school; how to diagram sentences at Glenbard East High; cultural anthropology at the University of Illinois; social anthropology at Northeastern University in Boston; and paleoanthropology at the University of Michigan. She lives with her husband and two dogs in Cleveland.  Her fifth novel, Eight to Five, Against, a murder mystery set in Dodge City in 1878, will be published in 2011.