Piper Center for Creative Writing's Fall Reading Series

Check out the amazing fall reading series hosted by our friends over at the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing!

An Incredible Season of Writers are Coming to Piper...

Save the dates and join us this fall when we welcome these incredible award-winning authors to the Piper Center!

Amy Tan
October 17th
Recipient of the Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, the Commonwealth Gold Award; and a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize, and the Orange Prize.

 David Quammen

November 7th & 8th

Former Rhodes Scholar, Lannan Foundation Fellow, and Guggenheim Fellow; three-time recipient of the National Magazine Award; and recipient of the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Natural World Book Prize, the John Burroughs Medal for nature writing, and the Stephen Jay Gould Prize.

This event is present with our co-sponsors:

Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University

Center for Science and Imagination

Institute for Humanities Research

School of Life Sciences

School of Letters and Sciences

Jack Gantos
December 7th
Recipient of the Newbery Medal, the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, the Quarterly West Novella Award, the California Young Reader medal, the Newbery Honor, the Printz Honor, and the Sibert Honor; finalist for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature; and longlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.