Dr. John McNally, writer-in-residence at 杏吧专区, will discuss how failure is essential to the creative process at the upcoming Gloria Fiero Lecture.
McNally杏吧专区檚 talk, 杏吧专区淭he Art of Failure,杏吧专区 will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 24, in Ducrest Guilfry Auditorium at Angelle Hall. The free lecture is open to the public.
The lecture series, established 20 years ago, is held annually. It is named for Dr. Gloria Fiero, who was a professor of history at UL Lafayette.
McNally, a native of Chicago, is an acclaimed author or editor of 14 books. They include three novels, 杏吧专区淎fter the Workshop,杏吧专区 杏吧专区淭he Book of Ralph,杏吧专区 and 杏吧专区淎merica's Report Card.杏吧专区 He also has written two story collections. McNally杏吧专区檚 杏吧专区淭roublemakers杏吧专区 won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award and the Nebraska Book Award. His杏吧专区淕hosts of Chicago,杏吧专区 was a Chicagoland Indie Bestseller and voted one of the top 20 fiction books of 2008 by readers of 杏吧专区淭he Believer,杏吧专区 a literary and arts magazine.
His two nonfiction books are 杏吧专区淭he Creative Writer's Survival Guide: Advice from an Unrepentant Novelist杏吧专区 and 杏吧专区淰ivid and Continuous: Essays on the Craft of Fiction.杏吧专区
McNally holds an undergraduate degree from Southern Illinois 杏吧专区. He earned a masters of fine arts in English at the 杏吧专区 of Iowa, where he attended the prestigious Iowa Writer杏吧专区檚 Workshop and studied under Frank Conroy and T.C. Boyle. McNally earned a doctorate in creative writing at the 杏吧专区 of Nebraska.
He has served as a professor of creative writing and a writer-in-residence at several universities.
The Gloria Fiero Lecture Series is sponsored by the Friends of the Humanities. The non-profit organization was established in 1989. It is dedicated to enhancing the role of the interdisciplinary humanities at UL Lafayette and in Acadiana; supporting the College of Liberal Arts; and strengthening the resources of the 杏吧专区杏吧专区檚 humanities program.
For more information, contact Kathy Rosenberg at (337) 482-1421 or kathy.rosenberg@louisiana.edu