The Outlaw Album: A Reading

Speaker:

Daniel Woodrell

26 Feb 2012

7:00 PM

Sun Room, Memorial Union

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Daniel Woodrell is the author of Winter's Bone, whose film adaptation was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Woodrell has set most of his eight novels in the Missouri Ozarks, where he grew up and now lives. Five of them have been selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year, and Tomato Red won the PEN West award for the novel in 1999. His second book, Woe to Live On, was adapted for the 1999 film Ride with the Devil. Woodrell dropped out of high school at seventeen to join the Marines. He eventually earned a BA from the University of Kansas and an MFA from the University of Iowa, where he attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop and was awarded a Michener Fellowship. His latest publication is a collection of short stories, The Outlaw Album. Part of the Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination.

[i]Under the Bright Lights[/i] (1986) [i]Woe to Live On[/i] (1987) [i]Muscle for the Wing[/i] (1988) [i]The Ones You Do[/i] (1992) [i]Give Us a Kiss: A Country Noir[/i] (1996) [i]Tomato Red[/i] (1998) [i]The Death of Sweet Mister[/i] (2001) [i]Winter's Bone[/i] (2006) [i]Photo credit: Bruce Carr[/i] ---- 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.