The Betsy Writer's Room welcomes Writer in Residence, Mary Morris, for a light breakfast and conversation about things that matter.
As a prelaunch to her newest book, due out in 2018, Betsy Writer in Residence Mary Morris shares details of a "very big, somewhat epic story of the secret Jews of New Mexico and their trajectory from the Spanish Inquisition to the present day." Hosted with Pablo Cartaya, Betsy's Literary Consultant.
Presented as part of our year-long Escribe Aquí Iberoamerican Literature Festival.
ABOUT THE WRITER
Mary Morris (born May 13, 1947 in Chicago) is an American author and a professor at Sarah Lawrence College. Morris published her first book, a collection of short stories, entitled Vanishing Animals & Other Stories, in 1979 at the age of thirty-two and was awarded the Rome Prize in Literature by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She has gone on to publish numerous collections of short stories, novels, and travel memoirs. She has also edited with her husband, the author Larry O'Connor, an anthology of women's travel literature, entitled Maiden Voyages, subsequently published as The Virago Book of Women Travellers.
This event is free and open to the community, but your RSVP is requested.