Please note that the lecture is a ticketed event. Two free tickets per person will be available for pick up at 340 Student Academic Services Building starting two weeks prior to the event.
Amy Waldman, author of the 20131-2014 Buckeye Book Community selection The Submission will present a public lecture on October 1, 2013 at 7:30pm in the Mershon Auditorium. For more information, see the Buckeye Book Club web page for this event.
About the author and book
The Submission, Amy Waldman’s first novel, was published in 2011. It won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and an American Book Award and was named a finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN First Fiction Award. It was a New York Times Notable Book for 2011, one of National Public Radio’s Ten Best Novels, Esquire‘s Book of the Year,Entertainment Weekly‘s #1 Novel for the Year, a Washington Post Notable Fiction Book, and one of Amazon’s Top 100 Books and top ten debut fiction. It was a finalist for the Guardian (UK) First Book Award and was long listed for the Orange Prize. It has been or will be published in Brazil, Italy, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, India, Indonesia, South Africa, Canada, Japan, Portugal, Sweden, Norway, and the Netherlands.
Amy’s fiction also has appeared in the Atlantic, the Boston Review and the Financial Times, and was anthologized inThe Best American Non-Required Reading 2010. Amy was a reporter for The New York Times for eight years, including three as co-chief of the New Delhi bureau. She was also a national correspondent for the Atlantic. She graduated from Yale University and has been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and at the American Academy in Berlin. She lives with her family in Brooklyn.
