Mary Lee Settle, 8th Annual ODU Literary Festival
Document Type
Featured Participant
Festival Date
10-7-1985
Location
Batten Arts and Letters Building; Webb University Center
Author/Artist Bio
Writing for the New York Times Book Review, novelist E.L. Doctorow has said that Mary Lee Settle "has a grand passion for what she's doing... high drama... and the instinct of the novelist for panorama..." Settle's prodigious writing career includes the publication of six highly acclaimed novels: Blood Tie, for which she was awarded the National Book Award for fiction in 1978, and The Beulah Quintet (Prisons, O Beulah Land, Know Nothing, The Scapegoat and The Killing Ground), hailed by critic Roger Shattuck as "an act of faith in the novel... a source of energies we can carry back to life itself." In addition to her fiction, Ms. Settle has published articles in a variety of magazines and journals, including an essay in Esquire this year on Japan. Ms. Settle will open the festival with a reading from her fiction on Monday evening; on Tuesday she will lecture on "Researching a Worldwide Novel."
Description
Settle read on Monday, October 7th, 1985 at 8:00 p.m. in the Batten Arts and Letters Building and on Tuesday, October 8th, 1985 at 2:00 p.m. in Webb University Center.
Recommended Citation
Settle, Mary Lee, "Mary Lee Settle, 8th Annual ODU Literary Festival" (1985). 8th Annual Literary Festival at ODU: October 7-10, 1985. 2.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/litfest-1985/2
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