Two Pulitzer Prize-winning authors and a National Book Award winner will be featured. The conference will also have several other nationally and internationally recognized poets and fiction writers, including veterans who have written about their war experiences. The conference will run from March 20 to 24 at the UND Memorial Union. There will be readings, a panel discussion, book signings, a film festival, student and public readings. Half of the conference will focus on the Vietnam War and the other half will be on other wars and conflicts, said conference coordinator James McKenzie.
All events are free and open to the public.
Tessa Bridal , an Uruguayan-American now living in the Twin Cities area. Butler served in Vietnam and has written much about that experience and about the Vietnamese who have immigrated to the United States. Helen Fremont , whose fiction and nonfiction has been published nationally. Arnold Isaacs covered the last three years of the Vietnam War for the Baltimore Sun newspaper. The War, Its Ghosts, and Its Legacy.