The following is from our friends at the Cuyahoga County Public Library. For more information, visit https://case.edu/maltzcenter/upcoming-events/william-n-skirball-writers-center-stage.
DON'T MISS A SHOW!
Writers
Center Stage is returning to the beautiful Maltz Performing Arts Center
at Case Western Reserve University for the 2021-2022 season. This
season we have also added a live stream option. All events will be held at 7:30 p.m. EST. | |
RICHARD POWERS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 | Award-winning author Richard Powers is known for writing novels that explore modern science and technology. His best-selling novel The Overstory (2019) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His latest novel, Bewilderment, will be released in September 2021. | | |
AMOR TOWLES TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2021 | When Amor Towles released Rules of Civility, it quickly became a New York Times best-seller and was named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best books of 2011. His second novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, was on the best-sellers list for more than 52 weeks. Towles' latest book, The Lincoln Highway, will be released in October 2021. | | |
MIN JIN LEE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2021 | Award-winning author Min Jin Lee's debut novel, Free Food for Millionaires (2007) became a national best-seller and Netflix adapted it as a television series. Her second novel, Pachinko (2017), was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and named one of The New York Times' 10 best books of the year. | | |
CARMEN MARIA MACHADO & RUMAAN ALAM WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2022 | Carmen Maria Machado is known for blending surrealism, fantasy and horror in her writing. She is the author of the best-selling memoir In the Dream House and the award-winning short story collection Her Body and Other Parties.
Rumaan Alam's thriller, Leave the World Behind, was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award and is being adapted into a film with Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington. | | |
ISABEL WILKERSON THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2022 | | |
ANTHONY DOERR MONDAY, MAY 2, 2022 | Anthony Doerr's novel All The Light We Cannot See
won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Carnegie Medal for
Excellence in Fiction, and was a finalist for the National Book Award.
It spent more than three and a half years on The New York Times' best-seller list. His latest book, Cloud Cuckoo Land, will be released in September 2021. | | |
The
2021-2022 William N. Skirball Writers Center Stage Series is presented
by the Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation and its academic
partner Case Western Reserve University. Funds
raised by this series help support Cuyahoga County Public Library, the
nation's top-rated library system for eleven consecutive years. | |
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