Monday, August 2, 2021

William N. Skirball Writers Center Stage 2021-2022 Season Announced

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
The New York Times called Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson's latest book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020) "an instant American classic," and TIME Magazine labeled it a must-read book. Wilkerson's first book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010), won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for nonfiction, among other honors.
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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