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(10/7/2021) Lydia Peelle, fiction: 7 PM | 101 Buttrick Hall | Face masks required

Posted by on Wednesday, August 4, 2021 in event.

Lydia Peelle is a mother, writer, dancer and photographer. The Whiting Award-winning author of the novel The Midnight Cool and the story collection Reasons For and Advantages of Breathing, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice book which received an honorable mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award and was a finalist for The Orion Book Prize, Peelle is also a recipient of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” honor and the Anahid Award for Armenian American writers. She will be Writer in Residence at Vanderbilt University in Fall 2021.

 

 

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