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#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Ann Weisgarber’s characters are deeply complex and multilayered. Her masterful prose paints a compelling picture of what motivates us to help one another, even when our gut is telling us to walk away. In this special Friday night lecture, critically acclaimed author Ann Weisgarber will explore how we can discover our compassion through books and writing.
#Artist
Ann Weisgarber
Ann Weisgarber is the author of three novels: THE GLOVEMAKER, THE PROMISE, and THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF RACHEL DUPREE. She won the Stephen Turner Award for First Fiction and the Langum Prize for American Historical Fiction. She was a finalist for Scotland’s Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the Orange Award for New Writers in the United Kingdom. The film rights for THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF RACHEL DUPREE are optioned by actress Viola Davis.
Ann earned a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work from Wright State University in Ohio, and a Master of Arts in Sociology from the University of Houston in Texas. Ann was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters in 2014 and lives in Galveston, Texas.
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