Authors Robert Olen Butler and Amy Bloom to take part in 2014-15 writers series at University of Richmond

September 18, 2014

Two accomplished novelists and short story writers will speak at the University of Richmond in the 2014-15 Writers Series this fall.

Author Robert Olen Butler won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel “A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain.” He was the recipient of the 2013 F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature, the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Gugenheim Fellowship in fiction and two National Magazine Awards in fiction. His work has been translated into 21 languages.

Olen, who teaches creative writing at Florida State University, will speak Oct. 22, 7 p.m. in Weinstein Hall, Brown-Alley Room. 

Amy Bloom, author of six books of fiction, has been a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award in fiction. A practicing psychotherapist for more than 20 years, Bloom is also the author of a nonfiction book, “Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops and Hermaphrodites with Attitudes.”

She is presently the Kim-Frank Family University Writer-in-Residence at Wesleyan University. Her talk will be on Nov. 11, 7 p.m. in Weinstein Hall, Brown-Alley Room.

The lectures are sponsored by the University of Richmond’s Department of English and are designed to expose Richmond students, the greater University community and city residents to some of today’s most celebrated writers. 

Writers series events are free and open to the public. 

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