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Novels About Legacies: 2017 National Book Festival

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Channel: Library of Congress · 2017 · Education

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Julia Glass presents "A House Among the Trees" and Jennifer Haigh presents "Heat and Light" in a panel discussion at the 2017 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. 

Speaker Biography: Julia Glass is a fiction writer and freelance journalist who has written articles and essays for several mainstream magazines on a variety of topics. She was awarded the 2002 National Book Award for Fiction for "Three Junes," her first novel. Her other books include "The Whole World Over," "And the Dark Sacred Night" and "I See You Everywhere," the winner of the Binghamton University John Gardner Fiction Book Award. A fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for 2004-2005, Glass is also the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in fiction writing (2000), a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and several prizes for her short stories, including three Nelson Algren Awards, the Tobias Wolff Award and the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society Medal for Best Novella. Her newest book is "A House Among the Trees." 

Speaker Biography: Jennifer Haigh is an award-winning author of novels and short stories. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2002. Her books—"News From Heaven," "Faith," "The Condition," "Baker Towers" and "Mrs. Kimble"—have won the Massachusetts Book Award, The PEN New England Award and the PEN/Hemingway Award and have been published in 16 languages. Her short stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Granta, The Best American Short Stories and many other publications. Her most recent novel, "Heat and Light," revisits the setting of "Baker Towers," now a former coal town conflicted over a deposit of natural gas. 

For transcript and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=8053

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