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Author Tom Drury to Visit Gustavus Adolphus College

 
 

Wednesday, September 20, 2006 (Around 2 years ago)

Gustavus Adolphus College will host Tom Drury, author of The Driftless Area, for a reading at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 27 in the Melva Lind Interpretive Center. Drury will have a question-and-answer session followed by a book signing. This event is free and open to the public.

Drury received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Iowa and his master’s degree in fiction writing from Brown University in Rhode Island. He has had work published in The New Yorker, Harper’s Bazaar, and The New York Times Magazine. Drury was the recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for 2000-2001, and was named one of the Best of Young American Novelists in Granta magazine. Drury has taught as a writing instructor at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, and as a visiting writer at Florida State, LaSalle, and Yale Universities.

This event is sponsored by the Gustavus Book Mark and is endorsed by Unity in Community — St. Peter Reads. For more information, please contact Judy Schultz at (507) 933-6017.

Gustavus Adolphus College is a private liberal arts college in St. Peter, Minn., that prepares 2,600 undergraduates for lives of leadership, service, and lifelong learning. The oldest Lutheran college in Minnesota, Gustavus was founded in 1862 by Swedish immigrants and named for Swedish King Gustav II Adolf. At Gustavus, students receive personal attention in small-sized classes and engage in collaborative research with their professors. Fully accredited and known for its strong science, writing, music, athletics, study-abroad, and service-learning programs, Gustavus hosts a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and is internationally recognized for its annual Nobel Conference®.

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