An Evening with Verlyn Klinkenborg
Nov 10, 2009 7:30 pm (Tuesday)
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Event details: An Evening with Verlyn Klinkenborg
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Geology Corner (Bldg. 320), Room 105 [Map]
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725-2650
continuingstudies@stanford.edu - continuingstudies@stanford.edu
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Please join us for an enjoyable evening with Verlyn Klinkenborg, acclaimed author of several books, and of the much-loved column âThe Rural Life,â which appears on the The New York Times editorial page twenty-six times a year. Tom Brokaw has called Klinkenborg âour modern Thoreauâ; others hear echoes of E. B. White in his voice. Like both of them, Klinkenborg observes the juncture at which our lives and the natural world intersect, and finds the luminous details that transform everyday experiences into luminous and revitalizing prose.
His books include The Rural Life, Making Hay, The Last Fine Time, and Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile. He has published extensively in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, National Geographic, Mother Jones, and other periodicals.
Klinkenborg was raised on an Iowa farm belonging to his family, graduated from Pomona College, received a PhD from Princeton, teaches creative writing at a number of American universities and colleges, and lives on a small farm in upstate New York. In 2007, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship, which is funding his current writing project, The Mermaids of Lapland, about the 18th-century English radical and farmer William Cobbett.
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