Novelist Ron Hansen to Read Nov. 1 in Tawes

 ** Due to Hurricane Sandy, this event has been moved to November 29th, same location and time. **

CHESTERTOWN, MD—Novelist Ron Hansen will give a reading Thursday, November 1 at 4 p.m. in Tawes Theatre, Daniel Z. Gibson Center for the Arts at Washington College, 300 Washington Avenue. The reading, part of the Sophie Kerr Living Writers Series, is free and open to the public.

            Hansen has published eight novels, two collections of short stories, and a book of essays. His novel The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford was a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and became a 2007 movie starring Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck. His work has also been recognized with awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

            After graduating from Creighton University in Omaha, Hansen went on to the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and then to Stanford University to complete his studies.  He currently serves as the Gerard Manley Hopkins Professor in the Arts and the Humanities at Santa Clara University. His next book, She Loves Me Not: New and Selected Stories, is scheduled for release next month.