Lindsay J. Cropper Memorial Writers Series: Alexander Chee
Date and Time
Thursday, February 20, 2020
This event occurred in the past
- Thursday, February 20, 2020 from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Location
Mother Rosalie Hill Hall, Warren Auditorium
5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110Cost
Free
Details
Our Lindsay J. Cropper Memorial Writers Series reading with Alexander Chee, nonfiction writer, is on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020, at 6 p.m. in Warren Auditorium, Mother Rosalie Hill Hall. A Q&A, dessert reception and book signing will follow the reading. This event is free and open to the public.
Alexander Chee is the author of the novels Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night, and the essay collection How To Write An Autobiographical Novel, all from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He is a contributing editor at The New Republic, and an editor at large at VQR. His essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, T Magazine, Tin House, Slate, and Guernica, among others. He is winner of a 2003 Whiting Award, a 2004 NEA Fellowship in prose and a 2010 MCCA Fellowship, and residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the VCCA, Civitella Ranieri and Amtrak. He is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College.
Sponsored by the Cropper Center for Creative Writing.
