Scott Russell Sanders, Brown Alum to speak in Rhode Island
Scott Russell Sanders, graduate of Brown University in 1967 is scheduled to speak at Rhode Island's Civic Tourism Conference on October 15. Sanders spent his early childhood in Tennessee and his school years in Ohio. He studied physics and English at Brown University, graduating in 1967. With the aid of a Marshall Scholarship, he pursued graduate work at the University of Cambridge, where he completed his Ph.D. in English in 1971. Since 1971 he has been teaching at Indiana University, where he is a Distinguished Professor of English.
Among his more than twenty books are novels, collections of stories, and works of personal nonfiction, including Staying Put, Writing from the Center, and Hunting for Hope. His latest book is A Private History of Awe, a coming-of-age memoir, love story, and spiritual testament, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. A Conservationist Manifesto, his vision of a shift to a sustainable society, will be published in 2009.
He has received the Lannan Literary Award, the Associated Writing Programs Award in Creative Nonfiction, the Great Lakes Book Award, the Kenyon Review Literary Award, and the John Burroughs Essay Award, among other honors. In 2006 he was named one of five inaugural winners of the Indiana Humanities Award. The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature recently named him the 2009 winner of the Mark Twain Award. His writing examines the human place in nature, the pursuit of social justice, the relation between culture and geography, and the search for a spiritual path.
Help welcome Scott Russell Sanders back to Rhode Island. Prof. Sanders will be a Keynote Speaker on the evening of October 15, 2008. The talk is scheduled for 6:30 pm and thereafter there will be a light refreshments and entertainment. Please join us welcome a Brown Alumni back to our ocean state.
For more information on the event visit www.civictourismconference2008.com <http://www.civictourismconference2008.com> . Special price for Brown, faculty, staff and students is $10. Please contact Lilly at 401 724 2200 to register.
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