This year's conference features a Booker Prize winner, an American Academy of Arts Straus Living Award winner, and several other national recognized poets, editors, and authors. Two documentary film-makers will also be featured whose combined achievements include two Oscars and three Emmys.
All events are free and open to the public.
He also wrote the screenplay for another one of his novels, Bliss, which became the Best Film in Australia for 1985. Carey has worked in advertising, once owning his own agency. His new novel, True History of the Kelly Gang, tells the story of the 18th century famous populist Australian outlaw Ned Kelly. Kent Haruf, a descendant of North Dakota homesteaders, worked a variety of jobs, including construction, building grains bins, egg candling, and high school teaching, before his success as a writer of fiction. His 1999 novel Plainsong, a finalist for the National Book Award, has led to many readers back to his earlier work.