Amherst College’s Inaugural LitFest to Feature Award-Winning Authors Michael Chabon, Lauren Groff, Angela Flournoy, Stacy Schiff and Mark Bowden
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFebruary 8, 2016Contact: Rachel Rogol, [email protected]
Newswise — AMHERST, Mass. – Amherst College has long been associated with great writers and writing. From Thursday, March 3, to Saturday, March 5, the College will host a literary festival celebrating fiction and nonfiction writing, poetry, spoken-word performance and conversation, with award-winning authors Michael Chabon, Lauren Groff, Angela Flournoy, Mark Bowden and Stacy Schiff.
Amherst College LitFest 2016 kicks off on Thursday, March 3, at 7:30 p.m. with the debut of the National Book Award on Campus program, a partnership between the National Book Foundation, Amherst College and its award-winning literary magazine The Common. Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker’s fiction editor, hosts a reading and conversation that evening with two finalists for the 2015 National Book Award for fiction: Lauren Groff, Amherst class of 2001, nominated for Fates and Furies, and Angela Flournoy, nominated for The Turner House. A book-signing with the authors follows the conversation. The event is free and open to the public.
On Friday, March 4, at 7 p.m., Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon will give a reading, followed by a book-signing. Chabon’s appearance celebrates a new partnership between Amherst College and The MacDowell Colony, the nation’s leading artist colony, where Mr. Chabon serves as board chair. The event is free and open to the public.
On Saturday, March 5, at 10 a.m., Cullen Murphy ’74, editor-at-large of Vanity Fair and chair of the Amherst College Board of Trustees, hosts a reading and conversation with nonfiction writers Stacy Schiff, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), and Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War and The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden. A book-signing with the authors follows the conversation. The event is free and open to the public.
Amherst College LitFest 2016 is organized by the Amherst College Center for Humanistic Inquiry, The Common and the Emily Dickinson Museum in downtown Amherst.
Visit the Amherst College LitFest 2016 website for the full event schedule and biographies of each special guest: www.amherst.edu/go/litfest
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