Acclaimed Author Sue Miller to Speak April 3 at Simmons College

BOSTON (March 14, 2002) — The celebrated award-winning author of The Good Mother will speak at Simmons College from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 3 in the Beatley Library Browsing Room, 300 The Fenway. The lecture, accompanied by a book signing, is free and open to the public.

Sue Miller, author of the recent book The World Below, whose book While I Was Gone was named a selection to Oprah’s Book Club, will be Simmons’s 2001-2002 Robert M. Gay lecturer. The World Below dovetails the stories of two women— one contemporary, twice-divorced, and living in San Francisco, and the other her grandmother, who remembers growing up in a tuberculosis sanatorium.

Miller is the author of five novels, including Inventing the Abbotts, which was adapted and released as a movie in 1997. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, MacDowell Colony fellowships, and a Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowship in Fiction, among others.

The Robert M. Gay lecture, named for the Simmons College professor of English, director of the English department, and founder and dean of what was then the Graduate School of Publications, was made possible through an endowed lectureship by Eleanor Bates ’39, Miriam Gosian Madfis ’40, and Dorothy Gove Russell ’32 in his memory.

For more information on the event, contact Ellen Donovan in the English department at 617-521-2220. Note to reporters: if you’d like to cover the event, contact Katie Fiermonti in the public relations office at 617-521-2369.

Simmons College is a nationally recognized, small, private, predominantly women’s university in the heart of Boston. It has undergraduate programs for women and graduate programs for women and men.

CONTACT

Katie Fiermonti
617-521-2369

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Undergraduate English

 

 

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