Monday, March 9 - Chapman University - 7:00 pm

John Fowles Center for Creative Writing

Venue: Doy and Dee Henley Reading Room, Leatherby Libraries, Chapman University

Admission is FREE and open to the public.

Co-sponsored by Istituto Italiano di Cultura

presents

Tony Ardizzone is a Chicago native and the author of six books of fiction and the editor of the recently released anthology The Habit of Art: Best Stories from the Indiana University Fiction Workshop (Indiana University Press). He has also just completed work on a new novel, The Whale Chaser. Among his books include: In the Garden of Papa Santuzzu; Taking It Home: Stories from the Neighborhood; The Evening News; and The Heart of the Order. His writing has received the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, the Chicago Foundation for Literature Award for Fiction sponsored by the Friends of Literature, the Pushcart Prize, the Virginia Prize for Fiction, the Lawrence Foundation Award, the Bruno Arcudi Literature Prize, two individual artist fellowships in fiction from the National Endowment for the Arts, and other honors. In 2006 he was named Chancellor’s Professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he teaches courses in creative writing, 20th century American fiction, ethnic American literature, and literary interpretation, and where he has twice served terms as director of the creative writing program. He has also served two terms on the Board of Directors of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs and was the recipient of Indiana University’s Tracy M. Sonneborn Award, given annually to a faculty member for exemplary teaching.