Babel Writer’s Series on March 18, 2020 is postponed at Kleinhans Hall at 8pm. Call 832-5400 for tickets.
Postponed-March 18, 2020 – Marilynne Robinson Gilead- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, National Humanities Medal is 2012 and 2016 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. Lives in Sandpoint, Idaho. Gilead – Set in 1956, the novel is composed of the memoirs of Reverend John Ames, a Congregationalist minister in the fictional town of Gilead, Iowa, as he tries to set down the story of his life for his young son before Reverend Ames dies.
Postponed-April 16, 2020– Colson Whitehead– Underground Railroad, African American novelist. Won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Underground Railroad -The two run away in the middle of the night and are unexpectedly joined by a young girl named Lovey. They are nearly caught by a group of white hog hunters; Lovey is captured, and Cora kills a white boy in order to escape. Cora and Caesar reach the house of Mr. Fletcher, Caesar’s contact with the underground railroad.
