Grayce Burian's New Memoir of Her Marriage

Grayce Burian, a friend of the Writers Institute and a pillar of the Capital Region theatre community, has published a new memoir of her marriage to the late Jarka Burian, UAlbany professor and the foremost scholar of the Czech theatre.

Among other things, the new book, From Jerry to Jarka: A Breezy Memoir of a Long, Peripatetic Marriage (Ohio State University Press), recounts the couple's numerous extended stays in Czechoslovakia (and later, the Czech Republic) over a period of several decades from the 1960s to the 2000s, as that country experienced dramatic political and cultural transformations.

More about the book: http://library.osu.edu/blogs/theatre-research-institute/2013/07/11/from-jerry-to-jarka-a-breezy-memoir-of-a-long-peripatetic-marriage-by-grayce-susan/

Grayce Burian endows the annual Burian Lecture on the art of the theatre at the New York State Writers Institute through the Jarka & Grayce Susan Burian Endowment. She also serves on Board of the UAlbany Emeritus Center.

More about the Burian Lecture series: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/burian_lectures.html