Writers Center Stage

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Writers Center Stage 2010-2011 Announced

All Series Events are held at the Ohio Theatre and begin at 7:30 PM

Neil
DeGrasse
Tyson

September 21

Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson is the author of nine books including the memoir The Sky Is Not the Limit and Origins, the companion book to the PBS-NOVA mini-series Origins, which Tyson also hosted. Tyson's latest are Death by Black Hole
(a bestseller) and The Pluto Files, the basis for the PBS/NOVA documentary "The Pluto Files" that aired this spring. More info

Jeannette Walls

October 26

Jeannette Walls is the author of the memoir
The Glass Castle, a New York Times bestseller with more than two million copies sold and translated into 16 languages. Amazon named
it one of the Top 10 Books of the Decade and it won numerous awards. Walls latest book,
Half Broke Horses became an instant bestseller when it was released last fall.

Dave
Eggers

March 29

Dave Eggers, the award-winning author and Pulitzer Prize finalist best known for
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.
His other works include Zeitoun, a nonfiction account of a Syrian-American immigrant's experiences in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and What Is the What, a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award.

Pete
Hamill

April 26

Pete Hamill is a novelist, essayist and journalist (covered wars in Vietnam, Nicaragua, Lebanon and Northern Ireland). He has written for The New York Post, New York Newsday, Village Voice and Esquire, and others. Hamill has published nine novels and short stories, including the bestsellers
Snow in August, Forever, his memoir
A Drinking Life, and North River.

Past events:

Garry Trudeau {10.6.09}
Cartoonist and creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning
comic strip Doonesbury, which appears in nearly
1,400 newspapers in the U.S. and abroad.

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Christopher Buckley {11.3.09}
Political satirist and bestselling author Christopher Buckley
is the author of 12 books, includingThe White House Mess,
Little Green Men, and Thank You for Smoking.

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Mary Oliver {4.13.10}
Poet Mary Oliver (born in Maple Ht., Ohio, in 1935)
is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry
and prose, including the Pulitzer Prize winning
American Primitive.

Jhumpa Lahiri {5.11.10}
Jhumpa Lahiri is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning
collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies, and
the critically acclaimed novel, The Namesake,
an international bestseller.

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