AUTHOR TALK: What a Long Strange Trip it’s Been with Patricia Henley

Name: AUTHOR TALK: What a Long Strange Trip it’s Been with Patricia Henley
Start: 2024-09-19T18:00:00-07:00
Location: Eugene Public Library

Schedule

Thu Sep 19 2024 at 06:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Eugene Public Library | Eugene, OR

Novelist Patricia Henley will visit to share her writing journey in a talk called "What a Long Strange Trip it’s Been." Henley’s first novel, "Hummingbird House," was a finalist for the 1999 National Book Award and The New Yorker Best Fiction Book Award. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Henley has also written two books of poetry, "Learning to Die" and "Back Roads," and four story collections: "Friday Night at Silver Star," which won the 1985 Montana Arts Council First Book Award; "The Secret of Cartwheels"; "Worship of the Common Heart: New and Selected Stories"; and "Other Heartbreaks." Her stories have been published widely, including in The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, and Northwest Review, and anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize anthology. For 27 years she taught in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Purdue University.