Allan Gurganus
Thursday, October 1, 2009 | 8 p.m.
Gannett Auditorium
Acclaimed novelist
Reading and converstation with Skidmore Professors of English Robert Boyers and Mason Stokes.
Allan Gurganus is the award-winning author of White People, Plays Well with Others, The Practical Heart, and a best-selling novel, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All. His short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, and other major magazines. A reviewer for the New York Times wrote that he "tells stories as well as anyone alive in our time."