Sun 3/20 @ 2PM
Cleveland Public Library’s Writers & Readers series presents author Robert Olmstead on Sun 3/20. Robert is from Delaware, Ohio, and works as an associate professor of English and director of the creative writing program at Ohio Wesleyan University. He’s also the author of five novels, a collection of short stories, a memoir, and a book on the craft of writing.
The scoop:
His highly praised 2007 novel, Coal Black Horse, won the Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Prize and the Ohioana Book Award for Fiction. With great reviews in the Tribune as well as the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Washington Post Book World, Coal Black Horse became a favorite of discussion groups across the country. The story takes place during the Civil War and earned comparison to the novels of Cormac McCarthy, The Red Badge of Courage and to Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain. Citing Olmstead’s lean prose and descriptive powers, National Public Radio’s Alan Cheuse said, “With a horse like this, you just want to ride.”
Cleveland Public Library – Louis Stokes Wing Auditorium
http://WritersAndReaders.cpl.org/olmstead.html
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