\n William Kittredge was born in Portland and attended Oreg on State in the early 1950s\, and earned an agriculture degree here. For ma ny years he worked on the eastern Oregon ranch on which he was\n raised\, before earning an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop in 1969. He has publis hed two short story collections\, The Van Gogh Field (1969) and We Are Not in This together (1984)\, a memoir\, Hole\n in the Sky (1993)\, and three books of essays\, Owning It All (1987)\, Who Owns the West (1996)\, and The Nature of Generosity (2000). Last year\, his first novel\, The Willow Fiel d was published to\n great acclaim. It won the Los Angeles Times Robert Ki rsch Award. Gretel Erlich called it an "instant classic--a big\, wild-heart ed American saga." Richard Ford hailed it as a "powerful novel . . .\n in love with language itself\, as stargazers are in love with light."\n
\n< p>\n In honor of Kittredge's OSU connection\, and to celebrate the univers ity's literary legacy\, there will be a small dedication ceremony at 3:00 p .m. on the afternoon of October 18. The new faculty\n lounge in the Englis h Department's Moreland Hall will be named in Kittredge's honor\, to comple ment the department's student lounge\, named after Bernard Malamud. Kittred ge will read from his work at\n 7:30 p.m.\, October 18\, in the first floo r rotunda of the Valley Library.\n\n\n Further information about th e Visiting Writers Series can be found at the Department of English website : http://oregonstate.edu/cla/english/\n
DTSTART:20071019T023000Z DTEND:20071019T033000Z X-OSU-ADDRESS:201 SW Waldo Place X-OSU-CITY:Corvallis X-OSU-CONTACT-DEPT:The Department of English X-OSU-CONTACT-PHONE:1 541 737 3244 X-OSU-COST:Free X-OSU-LOCATION:Valley Library X-OSU-ROOM:Main Rotunda X-OSU-STATE:OR X-OSU-SUBTITLE:The Visiting Writers Series LAST-MODIFIED:20071012T174042Z CREATED:20071012T174042Z DTSTAMP:20071012T174042Z CONTACT:Jenny Bunch END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR