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Join Butler MFA for a Visiting Writers Series reading with Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Finalist Rebecca Makkai!Rebecca Makkai is the author of The New York Times bestselling, "I Have Some Questions For You," as well as the novels "The Great Believers", "The Hundred-Year House", and "The Borrower", and the short story collection, "Music for Wartime".
"The Great Believers", a novel set in Chicago at the height of the American AIDS epidemic, as well as in 2015 Paris, was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize and the 2018 National Book Award. One of the New York Times‘ Top Ten Books of 2018, it also won the ALA Carnegie Medal, the LA Times Book Prize, the Stonewall Award, the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, the Midwest Independent Booksellers Award, the Clark Fiction Prize, and the Chicago Review of Books Award. Writing in the New York Times Book Review, Michael Cunningham called the novel: a “page turner… An absorbing and emotionally riveting story about what it’s like to live during times of crisis.”
A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, Rebecca teaches graduate fiction writing at Northwestern University, UNR Tahoe, and Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English; and she is Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago.
All VWS events are non-ticketed and free to the public.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Howard L. Schrott Center for the Arts, 923 W 42nd St, Indianapolis, IN 46208-63ND, United States,Indianapolis, Indiana
