Imagining the Land: Visiting Writers Series – The Flatness and Other Landscapes: Essays in Search of the Midwest
Michael Martone
Sunday, 15 Sep 2002 at 7:00 pm – Oak Room, Memorial Union
Michael Martone is the author of five books of short fiction including Seeing Eye, Pensées: The Thoughts of Dan Quayle, Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitler's List, Safety Patrol, and Alive and Dead in Indiana. He has edited two collections of essays about the Midwest: A Place of Sense: Essays in Search of the Midwest andTownships: Pieces of the Midwest . He edits Story County Books, and his newest book, The Flatness and Other Landscapes , a collection of his own essays about the Midwest, won the AWP Prize for Creative Nonfiction in 1998. He is Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Alabama. Before that, he taught at Syracuse University, Iowa State University, and Harvard University.
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