Claire Gilbert Marty Visiting Writer Series: Rebecca Makkai

Rebecca Makkai is the author of the novels I Have Some Questions for You, The Great Believers, The Hundred-Year House, The Borrower, and the story collection Music for Wartime. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, The Great Believers received an American Library Association Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, among other honors, and was named one of the ten best books of 2018 by The New York Times. A Guggenheim fellow, Makkai is on the MFA faculties of the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe and Northwestern University, and is the artistic director of Story Studio Chicago.

This literary reading and question & answer event will be followed by a book signing. Books for sale at the event. Sponsored by The English Department as part of the Claire Gilbert Marty Visiting Writer Series.