Tea and Conversation: Joan Silber
Where: Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room, Kaplan Hall 235
Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series:
Tea and Conversation with Joan Silber
Joan Silber will discuss her writing.
This event is followed by Some Favorite Writers: Joan Silber at the Hammer Museum at 7:30pm. Visit the Hammer Museum for full details.
Both events are free and open to the public.
Joan Silber is the author of nine books of fiction. The most recent is Secrets of Happiness (May 2021). Her novel, Improvement, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. She also received the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. Her previous book, Fools, was longlisted for the National Book Award and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. The Size of the World was a finalist for the LA Times Fiction Prize, and Ideas of Heaven was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Story Prize. She is also the author of The Art of Time in Fiction. She lives in New York, taught for many years at Sarah Lawrence College, and teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program.
Questions about the event?
Email: englishevents@ucla.edu