Rosellen Brown, introduced by Elinor Langer

Rosellen Brown has published eleven books – novels, short stories, poetry, essays – and has lived in almost as many places – New York, Boston, San Francisco, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Texas and, currently, Chicago. At this event Brown will read from her newest novel, The Lake on Fire, published in October 2018 to rave reviews. After many years on the faculty of the University of Houston and more than a dozen summers leading the Spoleto (Italy) Writers’ Workshop, Rosellen Brown now teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Elinor Langer is the author of Josephine Herbst (1983) and A Hundred Little Hitlers: The Death of a Black Man, the Trial of a White Racist and the Rise of the Neo-Nazi Movement in the United States (2003), which grew out of an issue-length report for The Nation in 1990.