{"id":1563,"date":"2021-11-08T11:59:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T11:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2025-08-07T18:14:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:14:57","slug":"november-11-tommy-orange-fiction-virtual-reading-7-pm-101-buttrick-hall-face-masks-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/november-11-tommy-orange-fiction-virtual-reading-7-pm-101-buttrick-hall-face-masks-required\/","title":{"rendered":"(11\/11\/2021) Tommy Orange, fiction (pre-recorded virtual reading): 7 PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1527 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/81btm3sXYxL-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" \/>Tommy Orange<\/strong>\u00a0is an American novelist and writer from Oakland, California. His first book,\u00a0<em>There, There,<\/em>\u00a0won the PEN\/Hemingway Award, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and the American Book Award. He is a recent graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, and he is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He currently lives in Angels Camp, California, with his wife and son.<a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/www.prhspeakers.com\/speaker\/tommy-orange. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.prhspeakers.com%2Fspeaker%2Ftommy-orange&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cluke.t.vines%40Vanderbilt.Edu%7Cf6ec85d661524099ef8908d96e290a1c%7Cba5a7f39e3be4ab3b45067fa80faecad%7C0%7C0%7C637661944802334631%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=6Qm5IxCkHvoXg4rxiLV3lYmEanmWwmeVo3TElH0N6qg%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"Verified\" data-linkindex=\"5\">https:\/\/www.prhspeakers.com\/speaker\/tommy-orange<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"color: #201f1e\"><a title=\"https:\/\/vanderbilt.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_J-dZ5dYmRg-Ug284SZkljg\" href=\"https:\/\/vanderbilt.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_J-dZ5dYmRg-Ug284SZkljg\"><span style=\"font-size: 18.0pt;font-family: 'Cambria',serif;color: black;background: white\">Click here to register for this 11\/11 pre-recorded reading with Tommy Orange.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the Gertrude &amp; Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Series, click <a href=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/visiting-writers-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For a downloadable and printable poster advertising all visiting writer events for AY 2021\/2022, click <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/10\/22134309\/Visiting-Writers-Series-Poster-2021-22_w-edits2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy Orange\u00a0is an American novelist and writer from Oakland, California. His first book,\u00a0There, There,\u00a0won the PEN\/Hemingway Award, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and the American Book Award. He is a recent graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, and he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1709,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions\/1709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}