The Writers House will continue its 2017-2018 Writers in Camden series on Wednesday, October 18th, with a reading by novelist Lydia Millet.
Lydia Millet is an American novelist and conservationist. Her third novel, My Happy Life, won the 2003 PEN Center USA Award for Fiction, and she has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize as well as a Guggenheim fellow, among other honors. Laura Miller of Salon has described Millet’s writing as “…always flawlessly beautiful, reaching for an experience that precedes language itself.” Millet has written books and stories that range from the philosophical to the satirical, on matters including the inventors of the atom bomb, political culture under George H.W. Bush, the discovery of mermaids in a coral reef and the crises of extinction and climate change. She lives in the desert outside Tucson, Arizona with her two children and works for the Center for Biological Diversity.
The event will begin at 7 p.m. in the Stedman Gallery. This event is free and open to the public; registration is encouraged.
The Writers in Camden series is sponsored by the MFA in Creative Writing Program and the National Endowment for the Arts.