PEN International presents Ana Menendez, Francine Prose, Mary Gordon, Michael Thomas and Sam Tanenhaus (Free admission - Tickets Required)

Panel on Censorship

Saturday, Nov. 14, 11:00 a.m., Chapman Conference Center (Building 3, 2nd Floor, Room 3210)

Author(s) and Guest(s)

Mary Gordon

Mary Gordon’s  Reading Jesus: A Writer’s Encounter With the Gospels (Pantheon) examines the biblical account as a narrative and studies Jesus as a character. Gordon is the author of the novels Spending, The Company of Women, The Rest of Life, Final Payments, The Other Side, and Pearl; the short story collections Temporary Shelter and The Stories of Mary Gordon; and the memoir The Shadow Man. She has received a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 1997 O. Henry Award for best story. She teaches at Barnard College and lives in New York City

Ana Menendez

Ana Menendez is Miami-based journalist and novelist. The New York Times called her first book, the short-story collection In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd, “a bright debut that points to even brighter accomplishments to come.” USA Today said her first novel, Loving Che,  “draws deeply on the value of memories we collect and the personal identity we struggle to build with them.” The daughter of Cuban exiles, she has worked for the Miami Herald and the Orange County Register. The Sun Sentinel called her most recent novel, The Last War (HarperCollins), a “fully convincing psychological portrait.”

Francine Prose

Francine Prose is the author of fifteen books of fiction, including A Changed Man and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the nonfiction New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer. Her latest novel, Goldengrove, was published in September 2008. President of PEN American Center, she lives in New York City. HarperCollins published Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife in September.

Sam Tanenhaus

Sam Tanenhaus, author of The Death of Conservatism (Random House), is the editor of both The New York Times Book Review and the Week in Review section of the Times. From 1999 to 2004 he was a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, where he wrote often on politics. His work has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, and many other publications. Tanenhaus’ previous book, Whittaker Chambers: A Biography, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

Michael Thomas

Michael Thomas’ first novel, Man Gone Down (Grove),  won the International DublinIMPAC Literary Award, which carries a $138,000 prize. “Thomas is a talented observer of how people interact.” – Kirkus Reviews. He teaches at Hunter College and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three children.

Schedule

Saturday, Nov. 14, 11:00 a.m.

Free Tickets Required

Location

Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Chapman Conference Center (Building 3, 2nd Floor, Room 3210)

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