When:
Thursday, February 18, 2021
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM CT
Where: Online
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Jennifer Michals
(847) 491-4133
Group: Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR)
Sponsor: American Indian Center of Chicago
Co-Sponsor:
Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Category: Multicultural & Diversity
Tommy Orange is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel There There, a multi-generational, relentlessly paced story about a side of America few of us have ever seen: the lives of urban Native Americans. There There was one of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year, and won the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Orange is a recent graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is a 2014 MacDowell Fellow, and a 2016 Writing by Writers Fellow. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was born and raised in Oakland, California, and currently lives in Angel’s Camp, California.
Talk with be virtual. Register here for link to event.