Bestselling author Elizabeth McCracken (The Hero of this Book, The Souvenir Museum) and award-winning poet Brenda Shaughnessy (Tanya, Our Andromeda) read from their recent work to kick off the 2024-25 Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series, hosted by the Program in Creative Writing.
This event is cosponsored by the Lewis Center for the Arts and Labyrinth Books. Authors’ books will be available for purchase and signatures.
About the Authors
Elizabeth McCracken is the author of eight books, including The Souvenir Museum (long-listed for the National Book Award) and The Giant’s House (a National Book Award finalist). A three-time Pushcart Prize winner, her work has been published in Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, The O. Henry Prize, three editions of the Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. McCracken has served on the faculty at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and currently holds the James Michener Chair for Fiction at the University of Texas at Austin.
Brenda Shaughnessy is the Okinawan-Irish American author of seven poetry collections, including The Octopus Museum and Our Andromeda. Shaughnessy is the recipient of a 2018 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is a professor of English and creative writing at Rutgers University-Newark.
Admission & Details
The reading is free and open to the public; no tickets required.
Directions
Get directions to Labyrinth Bookstore, located at 122 Nassau Street in Princeton.
Accessibility
Labyrinth Books is an accessible venue. Visit our Venues and Studios section for accessibility information at our various locations. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week in advance of the event date.
