A River Runs Through It, and Other Adventures: A Reading and Conversation with Annick Smith

 
09 Feb 2009
 
7:00 PM
 
Sun Room, Memorial Union

Annick Smith is a writer, editor, and filmmaker who lives in Montana’s Blackfoot River Valley. Her books include the memoir Homestead; Big Bluestem, Journey into the Tallgrass, written for The Nature Conservancy; the Montana anthology The Last Best Place, coedited with William Kittredge; and the recently published The Wide Open: Prose, Poetry, and Photographs of the Prairie. She was a founding member of the Sundance Film Institute, the executive producer of the feature film Heartland, and a coproducer of Robert Redford’s production of A River Runs Through It. The conversation will be moderated by Professor of English Debra Marquart. A reception hosted by the MFA Program in Creative Writing and the Environment will precede the talk at 6:30 in the South Ballroom. Part of the Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination.


[b]More information and a complete schedule of events for the [url=http://engl.iastate.edu/event_details/5th-annual-symposium-on-wildness-wilderness-the-creative-imagination-1.ics]Fifth Annual Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination[/url] ---- 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.