Brad Watson Memorial Celebration: "There is Happiness"
Schedule
Thu Sep 19 2024 at 06:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
734 Harden St., Columbia, SC, United States, South Carolina 29205 | Columbia, SC
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To honor the memory of acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Brad Watson, we will be hosting a book release party for his final story collection There is Happiness. Brad's son Jason Watson, a Columbia local, will be the guest of honor.Brad Watson (1955–2020) was the author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Heaven of Mercury and Miss Jane, and two collections of stories, Last Days of the Dog-Men and Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives. His work has been recognized by the short list and long list of the National Book Award, the International Dublin Literary Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Great Lakes New Writers Award, the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Fiction (twice), the Southern Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction, a National Endowment of the Arts Grant in Fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Harper Lee Award, and the Award in Letters granted by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He taught creative writing at Harvard University, the University of Alabama, and the University of Wyoming, Laramie.
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