|
CAM colloquium - Friday, October 19
3:30 p.m.
B11 Kimball HALL --NOTE ROOM
Speaker: David Leavitt, Co-director, MFA Program in Creative Writing,
University of Florida
Title: THE INDIAN CLERK: Creating Fiction from the Lives of Great
Mathematicians
Abstract: David Leavitt will read from and discuss
his novel THE INDIAN CLERK, based on the true story of Srinivasa Ramanujan,
the years he spent in Cambridge, and his collaboration with G. H.
Hardy.
David Leavitt's novels and short story collections include FAMILY
DANCING, THE LOST LANGUAGE OF CRANES, ARKANSAS, THE BODY OF JONAH
BOYD, and THE INDIAN CLERK. He is also the author of FLORENCE, A DELICATE
CASE and THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH: ALAN TURING AND THE INVENTION
OF THE COMPUTER. He co-directs the Creative Writing program at the
University of Florida.
Book signing and refreshments at 4:30
in 102 Thurston Hall.
|