Great Plains author to give reading
A writer known for featuring his native Kansas in his fiction will read from two short stories.
Robert Day, a professor of English and director of the O’Neill Literary House at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland will read from his stories “The Skull Hunter” and “The Cold War in Kansas” Dec. 3 at 7 p.m. at the Anderson Library on 1220 C. of E. Drive.
Day is best known for his novel, The Last Cattle Drive, which a reviewer in the Baltimore Sun called " . . . powerfully evocative. The smells, sights, and sounds of Kansas are described so well at times that one begins to cough as the dust crawls up through the floorboards of the battered pickup." He is also the author of two novellas, In My Stead and Four Wheel Drive Quartet.
Day has received MacDowell, Yaddo, and NEH fellowships in fiction writing. He has been a visiting writer at the Iowa Writers Workshop and an artist in residence at the University of Kansas.
The reading is sponsored by the Center for Great Plains Studies and the Department of English. It is free and open to the public.
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