Novelist Mark Richard to speak at Hillsdale College
Visiting Writers Series on September 26-27
On September 26-27, 2011, the English Department at Hillsdale College will host a visit by Mark Richard, novelist and author of the critically-acclaimed memoir, House of Prayer No. 2. On Monday, September 26, Mr. Richard will be reading from his short fiction. On Tuesday, September 27, he will be reading from and commenting on House of Prayer. Both events will be held at 8:00 pm in Dow Rooms A & B on the Hillsdale College campus. Both are also free and open to the public. 
Mark Richard was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and grew up in Texas and Virginia. He is the author of two award-winning short story collections, The Ice at the Bottom of the World and Charity, and a bestselling novel, Fishboy. His short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, GQ, The Paris Review, The Oxford American, Grand Street, Shenandoah, The Quarterly, Equator, and Antaeus. His journalism has appeared in The New York Times, Harper's, Spin, Esquire, George, Detour, Vogue, and The Oxford American, and he has been a correspondent for the BBC. House of Prayer No. 2, his most recent book, was published in February of this year.
He is the recipient of the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Award, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Whiting Foundation Writer's Award, a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, the Mary Francis Hobson Medal for Arts and Letters, and a National Magazine Award for Fiction.
He has been visiting writer-in-residence at Texas Tech University, the University of California Irvine, University of Mississippi, Arizona State University, the University of the South, Sewanee, and The Writer's Voice in New York. He now teaches in the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California.
Mr. Richard also wrote the screenplay “Stop-Loss” produced by Paramount, and has been a writer/producer for CBS’s “Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior,” Showtime’s Emmy-winning series “Huff,” “Chicago Hope” on CBS, and “Party of Five” on Fox. He is currently writer/producer for “Hell on Wheels,” a new dramatic series for AMC.
His books are currently available for purchase at the Hillsdale College Bookstore.
For further information, contact Dr. John Somerville at (517) 607-2431.
(Photo by Jeff Vespa)
Mark Richard was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and grew up in Texas and Virginia. He is the author of two award-winning short story collections, The Ice at the Bottom of the World and Charity, and a bestselling novel, Fishboy. His short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, GQ, The Paris Review, The Oxford American, Grand Street, Shenandoah, The Quarterly, Equator, and Antaeus. His journalism has appeared in The New York Times, Harper's, Spin, Esquire, George, Detour, Vogue, and The Oxford American, and he has been a correspondent for the BBC. House of Prayer No. 2, his most recent book, was published in February of this year.
He is the recipient of the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Award, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Whiting Foundation Writer's Award, a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, the Mary Francis Hobson Medal for Arts and Letters, and a National Magazine Award for Fiction.
He has been visiting writer-in-residence at Texas Tech University, the University of California Irvine, University of Mississippi, Arizona State University, the University of the South, Sewanee, and The Writer's Voice in New York. He now teaches in the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California.
Mr. Richard also wrote the screenplay “Stop-Loss” produced by Paramount, and has been a writer/producer for CBS’s “Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior,” Showtime’s Emmy-winning series “Huff,” “Chicago Hope” on CBS, and “Party of Five” on Fox. He is currently writer/producer for “Hell on Wheels,” a new dramatic series for AMC.
His books are currently available for purchase at the Hillsdale College Bookstore.
For further information, contact Dr. John Somerville at (517) 607-2431.
(Photo by Jeff Vespa)
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