Stories indexed under: Authors
Total: 8
- Indian author Arundhati Roy to visit March 5, 2013 Indian author and activist Arundhati Roy will visit the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus March 20-21, 2013 to speak to Wisconsin high school students. Roy will offer the keynote presentation for the Great World Texts Student Conference, sponsored by the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities, and will spend the day interacting with students who have read her Booker Prize-winning novel, "The God of Small Things."
- Wisconsin Book Festival author is world traveler, UW–Madison dad Oct. 19, 2011 Acclaimed author André Aciman, who will present a Wisconsin Book Festival talk on Thursday, is eagerly awaiting his visit to UW–Madison, where he has strong family ties.
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Words, wit and wild hearts: A conversation with author, professor Lorrie Moore
March 10, 2010
It’s a writer-to-writer conversation when Jacquelyn Mitchard sits down for a chat with Lorrie Moore, acclaimed fiction author and UW faculty member.
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'Wisconsin Votes' explores lively history of state voting behavior
May 14, 2008
Growing up in a politically divided house — with a Democratic mother and a Republican father — may have been one of the best things that could have happened to Robert Booth Fowler.
- Three finalists for Wisconsin Wrights’ new play project announced May 16, 2007 Bruce Murphy, Greg Lawless and Kurt McGinnis Brown have been selected as the three finalists for the first Wisconsin Wrights New Play Development Project.
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Book explores history, causes of allergy and asthma epidemic
May 10, 2007
Why is it that actions we think will improve a situation more often than not make it worse?
- Scott Turow to give free lecture March 28, 2007 Lawyer and best-selling author Scott Turow will give a free lecture, "Reflections of a Man with Two Heads," at 5 p.m. Monday, April 9, in Room 1100 of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Grainger Hall, 975 University Ave.
- Vet medicine student publishes award-winning novel March 8, 2007 Publication of her first novel has been exciting but also stressful for Sara Greenslit, currently in her third year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine.