Acclaimed Novelist Madden to Visit UMaine Nov. 1
Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571
ORONO — Prolific and acclaimed writer David Madden will spend the day at the University of Maine on Monday, Nov. 1. Louisiana State University’s Robert Penn Warren Professor of Creative Writing, emeritus, Madden will visit with UMaine English students and faculty members to share his insights and expertise on writing. At 4 p.m., the University of Maine bookstore will host him for a reading and book signing.
Madden’s new novel, “Abducted by Circumstance,” is his tenth. He was a Pulitzer Prize nominee for his 1978 novel, “The Suicide’s Wife,” a story that also became a television movie. Arguably one of the most prolific writers in contemporary literature, Madden has produced numerous short stories, poems, essays, textbooks and scholarly works — in addition to his novels — in a career that has spanned more than 50 years.
The Monday Nov. 1 reading is free and open to the public.
For more information about Madden and his work, visit http://www.davidmadden.net.