Friday, November 30, 2007 6:00-7:00 p.m., (Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau St.) Considered single of the finest writers of our period, Ford is maybe superlative known representing his Open Bascombe series of novels, The Sportswriter, Freedom Daytime, and The Lay of the Earth. Set down in Haddam, New Jersey, a unreal township that bears more than a passing likeness to Princeton, the novels possess won critical acclaim; Freedom Day, was the first new at all to win both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Pen/Faulkner Grant for Fiction. Ford is also the creator of several small story collections, including Rock Springs, Women With Men and A Multitude of Sins and is a recurrent contributor to The New York Times and The Novel Yorker. Ford’s other honors incorporate the Award representing Merit in the New of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the PEN/Malamud Grant representing Superiority in the Small Story, and from France, the Ordre des Artes et des Lettres. His novels and stories possess been translated into 23 languages.
Friday, Nov. 30, 6 p.m.
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