Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Chabon Gives UB Reading
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It’s always impressive—and an honor—to have a Pulitzer Prize winner read to a packed audience at your university, but what really set author Michael Chabon’s April 22 visit to UB apart was his hourlong, off-the-cuff chat with a small group of M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts students prior to his public presentation.
Later that evening in the company of a standing-room-only crowd in the John and Frances Angelos Law Center’s Moot Courtroom, Chabon reminisced about his childhood in Columbia, Maryland, and read from his short story “Switzerland Today.”
Check out our gallery of photos from the events—including our fangirl photographer on the other end of the camera as she gets a copy of Wonder Boys autographed.
asking Chabon to sign the “stool of fame”
Steve Matanle, associate professor, (right) asks Chabon to sign the Klein Family School of Communications Design’s “stool of fame,” a long-standing tradition for visiting authors. all photography: Katie Watkins
per tradition, Chabon signs the stool
Chabon signs the Klein Family School of Communications Design’s “stool of fame.”
Chabon speaks to a packed house in the John and Frances Angelos Law Center’s Moot Courtroom.
Chabon speaks to a packed house in the John and Frances Angelos Law Center’s Moot Courtroom.
Chabon speaks to a packed house in the John and Frances Angelos Law Center’s Moot Courtroom.
Chabon’s “selfie” with our photographer
Our photographer Katie Watkins is rewarded for her patience waiting in line to have Chabon sign her copy of Wonder Boys; he poses for a “selfie” with her.
Chabon’s autograph now adorns photographer Watkins’ copy of Wonder Boys.