Author Michael Chabon Visits UB, April 22
March 9, 2015
Contact: University Relations
Phone: 410.837.5739
Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, A Model World, Wonder Boys, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, and several other works of critically acclaimed fiction and non-fiction, will present a reading at the University of Baltimore on Wednesday, April 22, as a guest of the Klein Family School of Communications Design.
The event will begin at 7 p.m. in the Moot Court Room in the John and Francis Angelos Law Center (home to the UB School of Law), with a reception and book signing to follow. The Angelos Law Center is located at 1420 N. Charles St. This event is free and open to the public; an R.S.V.P. is requested (details listed below).
Chabon, who grew up in Columbia, Md. and currently resides in Berkeley, Ca., has received praise for his writings going back to the 1980s. Kavalier & Clay, for example, earned not only the Pulitzer, but also was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Newsweek called it a "towering, swash-buckling thrill of a book," while The New York Review of Books declared it a "magnum opus." It was a New York Times bestseller, and topped many best-of lists when it was published in 2000. It also was named one of the 10 Best Books of the Decade by Entertainment Weekly.
Chabon's appearance is sponsored by Michael Klein, B.A. '76.
To R.S.V.P., go here.
Learn more about the Klein Family School of Communications Design.
Read a feature article about Chabon in The Baltimore Sun.
Photo credit: Ulf Andersen - Getty Images.
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