Writers at Work Presents:
A Reading and Interview with Jayne Anne Phillips
Join us for a special reading and q&a session with Jayne Anne Phillips. Phillips will read from and discuss her new novel, Quiet Dell, described by Stephen King to be “a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction…Quiet Dell will be compared to In Cold Blood.”
When: Thursday, November 6 | 6:30 P.M.
Where: The Kansas City Public Library – Central Branch
14 W. 10th Street
Kansas City, Missouri 64105
Jayne Anne Phillips is the author of five novels and two books of stories. Phillips is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowments for the Arts Fellowships, a Howard Fellowship, and a Bunting Fellowship. She has received numerous recognitions and awards for her writing including the prestigious Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, spots on the New York Times best seller list and she has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Phillips is currently a Distinguished Professor of English and Director of the Rutgers Newark M.F.A program at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey.
The Jayne Anne Phillips reading is sponsored by the Writers at Work Round Table and the UMKC Department of English.