Author’s Talk Previewed In Newspaper

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout was interviewed by the Bangor Daily News in advance of her visit to UMaine next week. Strout, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for her fictional work, “Olive Kitteridge,” will be on campus March 22-24 to speak to writing classes and give a public reading of the book at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 22 at the Wells Conference Center. Her husband James Tierney, former Maine attorney general and currently director of the National State Attorneys General Program at Columbia Law School, will visit UMaine with Strout as a visiting lecturer.