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An Evening with Amor Towles

May 19, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Free

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An Evening with AMOR TOWLES, hosted by XHENET ALIU.

Born and raised in the Boston area, AMOR TOWLES graduated from Yale College and received an MA in English from Stanford University. His thesis at Stanford, a short story cycle called “The Temptations of Pleasure”, was published in 1989 in Paris Review No. 112. His new novel, The Lincoln Highway, debuted at #1 on The New York Times bestseller list, and was a Today Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick, one of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2021, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year, one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2021, and was #1 on Amazon’s list of the Best Books of the Year.

Mr. Towles’s first novel, Rules of Civility, which was published in 2011, was a New York Times bestseller and was named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best books of 2011. The book has been translated into over 15 languages, its French translation receiving the 2012 Prix Fitzgerald. In the fall of 2012, the novel was optioned by Lionsgate to be made into a feature film. Mr. Towles’s second novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, which was published in 2016, has been on the New York Times bestseller list for over 52 weeks in hardcover and was named one of the best books of 2016 by the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the San Francisco Chronicle, and NPR. The book has been translated into over thirty-five languages including Russian. In the summer of 2017, the novel was optioned by Entertainment One and the British director, Tom Harper, to be made into a 6-8 hour miniseries starring Kenneth Branagh. He is also the author of the ebook You Have Arrived at Your Destination as part of Amazon’s Forward collection.

Having worked as an investment professional for over twenty years, Mr. Towles now devotes himself full time to writing in Manhattan, where he lives with his wife and two children.


XHENET ALIU
is the author of the novel Brass, winner of the biennial Townsend Prize and 2018 Georgia Author of the Year First Novel Prize, and the short story collection Domesticated Wild Things, winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in fiction. She teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. 

Details

Date:
May 19, 2022
Time:
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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Venue

Cone Ballroom, Elliot University Center Auditorium, UNCG
507 Stirling Street
Greensboro, NC 27412
Phone
336-334-5510

Organizers

Greensboro Bound
UNCG University Libraries