Cuyahoga County Public Library presents the William N. Skirball Writers Center Stage Series brings the literary world’s best writers to Cleveland. Each show is followed by a Q&A and book signing.
All shows will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Case Western Reserve University’s Tinkham Veale University Center located at 11038 Bellflower Road, Cleveland, 44106.
Benefactor and Subscriber Level ticket packages are on sale now. Single author program tickets go on sale September 2nd.
The 2014-2015 season features:
Zadie Smith
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Award-winning British writer Zadie Smith opens the 2014-2015 William N. Skirball Writers Center Stage Series. Smith is best known for her novels, including White Teeth, for which she won the Guardian First Book Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize; The Autograph Man; and On Beauty, for which she won the Orange Prize for Fiction and a 2006 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Her recent novel, NW, was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.
Dennis Lehane
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Boston-based writer Dennis Lehane has published a collection of short stories and 10 critically acclaimed novels, three of which have been adapted into award-winning films: Shutter Island, Mystic River, and Gone, Baby, Gone. Lehane earned the Edgar Award and Writers Guild of America Award for his work as a writer for the hit HBO television series The Wire. His latest novel, Live by Night, won the 2013 Edgar Award for Best Novel of the Year.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Monday, November 17, 2014
Elizabeth Gilbert is best known for her memoir Eat, Pray, Love, which sold more than 10 million copies worldwide and became so popular that Time magazine named Gilbert one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Her other works include the memoir Committed: A Love Story, an international bestseller, the short story collection Pilgrims, a Pushcart Prize winner, and the biography The Last American Man, a National Book Award finalist. In 2013 Gilbert published The Signature of All Things, named one of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times and NPR.
Khaled Hosseini
Thursday, March 5, 2015
Afghan-born novelist and physician Khaled Hosseini left the medical profession to pursue his passion for writing. His first two novels, The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, were published in more than 70 countries and sold more than 38 million copies worldwide. In 2006, Hosseini was named a Goodwill Envoy to the United Nations Refugee Agency. Inspired by a trip he made to Afghanistan, he established a foundation that provides humanitarian assistance to the Afghani people. He published his much-anticipated third novel, And the Mountains Echoed, in 2013.
Chang-Rae Lee
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Korean-American novelist Chang-rae Lee has published five critically acclaimed novels, including Native Speaker, for which he won the PEN/Hemingway Award for first fiction; A Gesture Life, for which he won a 2000 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award; Aloft; and The Surrendered, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Lee is the director of the creative writing program at Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts. His latest novel is On Such a Full Sea.
Mary Roach
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Best-selling journalist and author Mary Roach is known for writing humorous, insightful explorations of science and the human body. She has published five works of nonfiction including Packing for Mars; Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers; Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex; and Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, a New York Times Notable book. Roach’s work has been published in National Geographic, Wired, and New Scientist. Her latest is Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal.
2014-2015 William N. Skirball Writers Center Stage Series Subscription Packages
Benefactor Level Subscription – $250.00
Premium seating at all 6 shows
Free parking in the CWRU Campus Center Garage Lot S-29 adjacent to Severance Hall with direct, weather-protected access to the Tinkham Veale University Center
Admission to an exclusive event during the season
Subscriber Level – $130.00
Preferred seating at all 6 shows
Free parking in the CWRU Campus Center Garage Lot S-29 adjacent to Severance Hall garage with direct, weather-protected access to the Tinkham Veale University Center, for the 2014-15 season only
To purchase a series subscription package, please call 216-749-9483.
The 2014-15 William N. Skirball Writers Center Stage Series is presented by the Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation and its academic partner Case Western Reserve University. Funds raised by this series help support Cuyahoga County Public Library.
