Writers for the 2008 Season
Michael Cunningham - January 31 | Mark Jarman - Feb 7 | Claire Keegan - Feb 14 | Jamaica Kincaid - Feb 21Master Classes – 4 p.m., Bush Auditorium
Author Readings and Interviews – 8 p.m., Tiedtke Concert Hall
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David Halberstam
David Halberstam (April 10, 1934 – April 23, 2007) visited Rollins College as a Winter With the Writers author in January ’99, on the occasion of the observance of Martin Luther King’s birthday, as part of a tour for his book The Children, a “collective biography” of several of the, in Halberstam’s view, strikingly young black activists who organized the first sit-ins during the most active years of the civil rights movement, 1960-1965. C-SPAN Television recorded Halberstam at the Rollins podium as he discussed what became of those young people, approximately his age at the time (he was covering the movement for The Nashville Tennessean and later for The New York Times). Early in his Rollins talk, Halberstam, normally very formal, spotted Rollins alumni Fred Rogers and his wife in the front row of the auditorium. “Well, good evening, neighbor,” he said in a most cordial greeting, and promptly peeled off his sportcoat and settled into one of the more important lectures in recent memory. (It turned out both Rogers and Halberstam had homes on Nantucket.) A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Halberstam was known for his early work on the Vietnam War, his work on politics, history, business, media, American culture, and his later sports journalism. Rollins College was privileged to host him as part of Winter With the Writers and joins the literary world in mourning his loss. He was killed in a car accident in California thirteen days after his 73rd birthday.
Hosted by the Rollins College Department of English
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM
Four Acclaimed Authors
Four Dazzling Evenings
Thursday, January 31, 2008 – 8 PM
MARK JARMAN
Latest Release: Specimen Days
“Reading Michael Cunningham is like putting on see-through glasses.
He’s got this way of exposing his characters’ deepest inclinations and motivations, letting us peer through glass directly into their souls.” - The Boston Globe
Thursday, February 7, 2008 – 8 PM
CLAIRE KEEGAN
Latest Release: Epistles
“Mark Jarman . . . treats poetry as a spiritual quest . . . . He is the son and grandson of preachers and has taken the running quarrel between his father, a rationalist, and his grandfather, a would-be mystic, into the secular realm of his poems . . . . Poetry may have become his true church . . . but he doesn't escape the hard questions of his upbringing.” - The Washington Post
Thursday, February 14, 2008 – 8 PM
JAMAICA KINCAID
Latest Release: Walk the Blue Fields
“That Keegan has a knack for storytelling is proved many times over, in stories that reject the parable approach for a more informal, intimate style . . . . Her ear seems to tune in to the rhythms of life with enviably direct phrasing.” - The New York Times Book Review
Thursday, February 21, 2008 – 8 PM
Latest Release: Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya
“Kincaid conscientiously and expertly manipulates language the way a photographer adjusts a camera’s lens, bringing her characters into clear focus and accentuating their profiles against their natural backdrop, a lush – and often perplexing – island milieu.” - The Boston Globe
Thursday events are held in Tiedtke Concert Hall on the Rollins Campus
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