The College of Arts & Letters Lecture Series presents
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Frank McCourt
Sunday, November 5
7:30 p.m. - Informal Presentation with
Educators
9:30 p.m. - Reception and Book Signing
Monday, November 6
10 a.m. - Presentation to High
School Students
2 p.m. - Presentation to Missouri State, Area College
Students
7:30 p.m. - Lecture and Book Signing at Juanita K. Hammons Hall for
the Performing Arts
(Admission is FREE, but
tickets are required. Call the Missouri State Box Office at 417-836-7678
or toll
free at 1-888-476-7849)
Tuesday, November
7
8 a.m. - Community Breakfast
As a precursor to McCourt's three-day visit, a discussion of his three books
will be held at Barnes & Noble Booksellers on Thursday, October 26 at 7:00
p.m. Joining moderator Dr. Adele Newson-Horst, Dean of the College of Arts &
Letters, will be Dr. W.D. Blackmon, Head of the English Department; Annie Busch,
Director of Springfield-Greene County Library Systems; Mayor Tom Carlson; Karen
Horny, Dean of Meyer Library; Dr. Norm Ridder, Superintendent Springfield R-12
Schools; and Don Wyatt, Editor of the Springfield News-Leader.
Before writing his Pulitzer Prize winning book, Angela's
Ashes, Frank McCourt spent twenty-seven years teaching in the New York
City public school system. His love for and commitment to education and children
is evident in his writing, his teaching, his lectures, his life.
Angela’s Ashes, which tells McCourt’s story of being born in
Depression-era Brooklyn, moving to the slums of Ireland, and enduring a drunken
father, flea-ridden mattresses and dying siblings, was published in 1996. This
his first novel, spent 117 weeks on the New York Times
Best-Seller List with over two million copies in print in eighteen countries. In
1997 the book won the Pulitzer Prize for best Autobiography, the National Book
Critics Circle Award, the ABBY Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award.
For more event information contact Barb Jones, Director of Special Events for
the College at (417) 836-6605 or by e-mail at BarbaraJones@MissouriState.edu.
This
event is co-sponsored by the Writers Hall of
Fame® of America
To support the COAL
Lecture Series, please consider making a gift to the Missouri State University
Foundation/COAL Lecture Series. For more information call Marie Murphree,
Director of Development for the College, at (417) 836-6740.