Paul Grondahl, the newly-named director of the Writers
Institute, will host his first events on Tuesday, March 7th. Please join us in
giving him a warm welcome.
Grondahl earned a master’s degree in English at UAlbany in
1984. An award-winning journalist and biographer, he has been a staff writer at
the Albany Times Union for more than 30 years.
His projects on domestic violence, death and dying, mental illness in
state prisons and the problems facing sub-Saharan Africa have won local, state
and national journalism prizes.
DIANE ACKERMAN
BESTSELLING AUTHOR, POET, AND NATURALIST TO READ FROM AND DISCUSS HER BOOK THE ZOOKEEPER’S WIFE
8:00 p.m. Reading Clark Auditorium, NYS Museum, Cultural Education Center, Downtown Albany
BESTSELLING AUTHOR, POET, AND NATURALIST TO READ FROM AND DISCUSS HER BOOK THE ZOOKEEPER’S WIFE
NYS Writers Institute, Tuesday, March 7, 2017
4:15 p.m. Seminar University Hall Room 110, Collins
Circle, Uptown Campus
8:00 p.m. Reading Clark Auditorium, NYS Museum, Cultural Education Center, Downtown Albany
Diane Ackerman, renowned for her explorations of the natural
world in nonfiction and poetry, received the National Outdoor Book Award and
PEN’s Henry Thoreau Prize for her 2015 book The Human Age, about new efforts to
save the planet. Her other works include A Natural History of the Senses
(1990); the memoir and Pulitzer finalist One Hundred Names for Love (2011), and
The Zookeeper’s Wife (2007), the true story of a Warsaw zookeeper’s family that
saved 300 Jews during the Holocaust, which will be released as a film starring
Oscar-nominated actress Jessica Chastain on March 31st. A trailer for the new
film will be screened at the 8PM event.
For more about Diane Ackerman: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/ackerman_diane17.html
For more about the Visiting Writers Series: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/programpages/vws.html
For more information, contact the NYS Writers Institute at
518-442-5620 or visit us online at www.albany.edu/writers-inst.
