You are cordially invited to attend The Royden B. Davis, S. J., Distinguished Author Award Presentation honoring Mary Gordon
* $ 50 per person    $ 25 per student * $ 45 for Friends members & Schemel Forum members    $ 20 for Friends student member Register Online Mary Gordon, author of novels, short stories and non-fiction will be honored on May 3, 2008, with the Royden B. Davis Distinguished Author Award at 5:00 p.m. in the Ballroom of the DeNaples Campus Center. She is the McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard College.  Her works of fiction include the novels Final Payments (1978), The Company of Women (1981), Men and Angels (1985), The Other Side (1989), Spending (1998) and Pearl(2005). The Stories of Mary Gordon, published in 2006, includes short fiction written over a thirty year period. Twenty-two of the stories are new or unpublished and nineteen appeared in the 1987 collection Temporary Shelter. This collection won the $20,000 third annual Story Prize in 2007. She is also the author of The Rest of Life : Three Novellas (1994). Contemporary Authors lists among her other awards an O.Henry Award for best short story in 1997 for “City Life” published in Ploughshares magazine, a Guggenheim fellowship and the Lila Acheson Wallace/Reader’s Digest Writer’s Award. Her non-fiction memoirs include The Shadow Man: A Daughter’s Search for Her Father (1996), Seeing through Places: Reflections on Geography and Identity (2000) and Circling My Mother:  a Memoir (2007). Essays are collected in Good Boys and Dead Girls and Other Essays (1991).  Ms. Gordon’s biography of Joan of Arc was published in 2000. Reviews of Mary Gordon’s work extol her deft use of language in treating complex emotional, intellectual, religious and ethical themes. To reserve seat(s) for this event, you may fill out a form online http://academic.scranton.edu/department/wml/dauthorform.html or call Kym Fetsko at 570 941-7816 or email fetskok2@scranton.edu. In addition to the reception, the day’s events include a Book Signing at the University of Scranton Bookstore. Your payment is your event reservation. On the evening of the event, tickets will be available at the door on a space-available basis. If you are unable to attend but would like to make a contribution to the Endowment Fund, please make your check payable to the Friends of the Weinberg Memorial Library. Thank you. * Includes a tax-deductible contribution of $25 to the Friends of the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Memorial Library Endowment Fund. Please visit our Events Sponors! A special thank you to our Distinguished Authors Award Event Planning Committee. Please check back often, we will be adding the event schedule list soon!
SCHEDULE of EVENTS Saturday, May 3, 2008 2:00-3:00 p.m.      Book Signing                             Fifth Floor Heritage Room, Weinberg Memorial Library 5:00 p.m.              Meet the Author Reception                             Cocktails, Hors d'oeuvres, Light Dinner Fare, Desserts                             Ballroom, Fourth Floor, DeNaples Center 6:15-8:15 p.m.      The Royden B. Davis, S. J., Distinguished Author Award Presentation                             Ballroom, Fourth Floor, DeNaples Center                             Toastmaster…………………………………………………………………………………………… Deborah Dunleavy                                                                                                                             Maketing Directory,                                                                                                                    First Liberty Bank & Trust                             Invocation …………………………………………………………………………………… Ronald J. McKinney, S. J.                                                                                                              Professor and Faculty Director                                                                                                        Special Jesuit Liberal Arts Program                             Opening Remarks ……………………………………………………………………………… Charles E. Kratz, Jr.                                                                                          Dean of the Library and Information Fluency                             Introduction of Mary Gordon………………………………………… Diane Murray and Sondra Myers                                                                                         Co-Chairs, Distinguished Author Award Event                             Presentation of                             Distinguished Author Award ………………………………………………………… Harold W. Baillie, Ph.D.                                                                                     Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs ,                                                                                                                   The University of Scranton                             Readings and Comments                             on Circling My Mother……………………………………………………………………………………… Mary Gordon                             Closing Remarks …………………………………………………………………………… Harold W. Baillie, Ph.D.                            For additional information, contact Kym Fetsko at (570) 941-7816 or fetskok2@scranton.edu,                            or visit www.scranton.edu/authaward