Memory Wall: A Reading
Speaker:
Anthony Doerr
27 Feb 2012
7:00 PM
Sun Room, Memorial Union
Anthony Doerr is the author of four books, The Shell Collector, About Grace, Four Seasons in Rome, and, most recently, Memory Wall, which takes place on four continents and addresses issues from Alzheimer's in South Africa to infertility in Wyoming to fishing for endangered sturgeon in Lithuania. His writing has been recognized with numerous awards, including four O. Henry Prizes, the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Magazine Award for Fiction, two Pushcart Prizes, and the 2010 Story Prize. Anthony Doerr also writes a regular column on science books for the Boston Globe. He lives in Boise, Idaho. Part of the Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination.
This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.