Allan Gurganus, 35th Annual ODU Literary Festival
Document Type
Featured Participant
Festival Date
10-5-2012
Location
Chandler Recital Hall, Diehn Center for the Performing Arts
Author/Artist Bio
Allan Gurganus’s novels, stories and essays include the international bestseller Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (1989) which has been translated into 12 languages and sold over 2 million copies. His first published story, “Minor Heroism,” appeared in the New Yorker in 1974 and offered the first gay character that magazine had ever presented. Gurganus is a 2006 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow. His other published works include a collection of stories and novellas, White People (Los Angeles Times Book Prize) and the novel Plays Well With Others. His latest book is The Practical Heart: Four Novellas (Lambda Literary Award).
Description
Gurganus read on Friday, October 5th, 2012 at 7:30 p.m.
Recommended Citation
Gurganus, Allan, "Allan Gurganus, 35th Annual ODU Literary Festival" (2012). 35th Annual Literary Festival at ODU: September 30-October 5, 2012. 14.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/litfest-2012/14
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