Award-winning
novelist Arthur Phillips and book group favorite Thrity Umrigar
will come to the Center to read from their latest works. Phillips will
read from Angelica, his just released third novel. Part Victorian
ghost story, part gothic drama, part psychological puzzle, it is entirely
spellbinding. Umrigar will read from The Space Between Us, an intimate
fictional portrait of a Parsi woman and her domestic servant, a book that
was a #1 Book Sense selection when it was published last year.
Arthur Phillips’ first novel, Prague, a national bestseller, was named a New York Times Notable Book, and received The Los Angeles Times/Art Seidenbaum Award for best first novel. His second novel, The Egyptologist, was a national and international bestseller, and was on more than a dozen “Best of 2004” lists. A five-time Jeopardy! champion, his work has been translated into twenty-five languages. He lives in New York with his wife and two sons. www.arthurphillips.info
Born in Bombay, India, Thrity Umrigar came to the U.S. at the age of 21. She worked as a journalist for seventeen years, earned a Ph.D. in English, and won a Nieman Fellowship to Harvard University. While at Harvard, she wrote the novel Bombay Time. Thrity has written for the Washington Post, the Plain Dealer and other national newspapers, and contributes regularly to the Boston Globe’s book pages. She teaches creative writing, journalism and literature at Case Western Reserve University, and is also author of the the memoir First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood. Thrity lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. www.umrigar.com
As an added treat, these highly regarded authors will be introduced by their literary agent Marly Rusoff, whose agency represents a select group of quality fiction and non-fiction writers. Her clients include award-winning and best-selling authors. Rusoff is a long-time supporter of the Writers’ Center, serving on our Readings Committee, and she is the founder of nationally recognized The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis.
Arthur Phillips photo by Anna Weise; Thrity Umrigar by Marion Ettinger
All readings include a question & answer period and a reception with books by the author(s) for sale.
Suggested
Donation: $5 ($3 for HVWC members and those under age 18)
Programs and events at The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center are made possible, in part, by grants from the Bydale Foundation, the David G. Taft Foundation, the Orchard Foundation, and the Thendara Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts; and by the Basic Program Support Grant of the Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government.