Wednesday
April 8, 2009
7:00 p.m.
Borders Books and Music
91st and Metcalf
Overland Park, Kansas
Speaker: Thomas Fox Averill
Visitors Welcome. Please join us!
Tom Averill, award-winning author and Writer-in-residence and Professor of English at Washburn University in Topeka, will talk about his novel, The Slow Air of Ewan McPherson, with an additional discussion on plots and plotting.
Tom won the O. Henry Award for his short stories. His story collections include Ordinary Genius, Seeing Mona Naked, and Passes at the Moon. He has written two novels, Secrets of the Tsil Cafe and The Slow Air of Ewan McPherson, as well as numerous poems and articles. Tom helped to found and was the first director of the Washburn Center for Kansas Studies. He has edited several books and, as his alter ego, William Jennings Bryan Oleander, is a commentator on Kansas Public Radio at the University of Kansas.
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