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2009 Featured
Speakers
| Michael Chabon |
| Michael Chabon is "one of the most celebrated writers of his generation," according to The Virginia Quarterly Review and is the author of seven novels, two collections of short stories and a collection of essays. Some of the titles include, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Werewolves in Their Youth and Maps and Legends. Chabon has also published screenplays, children's books, comics, and newspaper serials. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, the novellist Ayelet Waldman, and their children. |
| Maile Meloy |
| Maile Meloy is the author of the novels Liars and Saints and A Family Daughter, and the story collection Half in Love. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker and The Paris Review, and she has received the PEN/Malamud Award, the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her new story collection, Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It, will be published in July 2009. |
| Michael Sowder |
| Michael Sowder's poetry collection, The Empty Boat, was chosen by Diane Wakoski to win the T.S. Eliot Prize, and his collection, A Calendar of Crows, won the New Michigan Press Award. His critical study of Walt Whitman, Whitman's Ecstatic Union, was published by Routledge in 2005. His poetry and essays appear frequently in journals and magazines throughout the country. He is an associate professor at Utah State University and poetry editor of Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing. |
Past Speakers at the NULC
| Ana Mende • David Lee • Alice Sebold • Glen Gold • Bret Anthony Johnston • Terry Gifford • Norman Mailer • Lori Aurelia Williams • Raymond Carver • Richard Ford • Ray Bradbury • Alan Cheuse • Ann Beattie • Harriet Doerr • Maxine Kumin • Carolyn Forché • Tim O’Brien • Richard Bausch • Howard McCord • Ron Carlson • George Garrett • Douglas Unger • John Edgar Wideman • Larry McMurtry • John Barth • Tobias Wolff • Antonya Nelson • E.L. Doctorow • Tess Gallagher • Robert Olen Butler • James Houston • Jeanne Houston • Robert Stone • Peter Matthiessen • Catherine Bowman • Jeff Long • Carlos Fuentes • David Lee • Molly Giles • Jamaica Kincaid • Chitra Divakaruni • Peter Wiley • Victor Martinez • Ethan Canin • Matthew Klam • Kate Wheeler • David Duncan • Linda Hogan • Stephen Trimble |
Weber State University, Conferences, Ogden, Utah 84408-4003,
(800) 848-7770 ext 6600 or (801) 626-6600, conferences@weber.edu |