Jonathan Safran Foer Visits Stuart
Posted January 12, 2010
Best-selling novelist Jonathan Safran Foer will be the featured author at Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart’s second annual Lies, Light, McCarthy Visiting Author Program. The public is invited to visit the school on January 29 at 7:15 pm to hear Mr. Foer read from selected works. The event is open to the public and free of charge.
Mr. Foer is the author of the internationally acclaimed Everything is Illuminated, which has been translated into 35 languages. The book has won numerous awards, including the Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times, the Guardian First Book Prize, the National Jewish Book Award and the New York Library Young Lions Prize.
His second work, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, also made the national and international best-seller lists and received the “Literature for Life” Award from the Victoria and Albert Museum. His latest book, Eating Animals, is a nonfiction work published in November 2009.
During his visit to Stuart, Mr. Foer will meet with students of all ages to share his expertise on the craft of writing. Activities will also include readings with the students and Q & A sessions. Students will also have the opportunity to interact with the author at special luncheon and dinner events.
The Lies, Light, McCarthy Visiting Author Program is an annual event that was the dream of three former Stuart English faculty members; Betty Lies, Nancy Light and Vicky McCarthy ’71. The goal of the program is to bring prominent authors to Stuart who will share their knowledge and experiences with the students. The 2009 Visiting Author was Pulitzer Prize winning poet Paul Muldoon.
