Anna Quindlen is keynote speaker at 2009 Creative Writing Awards
New Haven, CT — March 31, 2009
Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist and Best Selling Author Anna
Quindlen will be the keynote speaker at the 2009 YSN Creative Writing
Awards on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 5:30 pm, at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale.
This annual event is a celebration of "Yale Nurses writing nursing."
Professor Linda Pellico, coordinator of the Creative Writing Award
event, added "you will be privileged to hear the words of Yale nursing
students at this special event. For a few moments, they will hold you
spellbound and carry you into their world. Their narratives enchant,
give meaning to the work and life of a nurse, and invite others in for
a peek."
Ms. Quindlen's talk is presented by the Isaac H. Bromley Lectureship.
She has written five novels (Blessings, Object Lessons, One True Thing,
Black and Blue, Rise and Shine), and six nonfiction books (Being
Perfect, Loud & Clear, A Short Guide to a Happy Life, Living Out
Loud, Thinking Out Loud, How Reading Changed My Life). She has also
written two children's books (The Tree That Came to Stay, Happily Ever
After). Ms. Quindlen became only the third woman in the history of The New York Times
to write a regular column for its influential Op-Ed page when she began
the nationally-syndicated "Public and Private," for which she won the
Pulitzer Prize. She currently writes the "My Turn" column every other
week in Newsweek.
Tickets to the Creative Writing Awards are $100 per person and may be reserved by calling 203-737-4112 or email tracy.chidsey@yale.edu.
