Rick Bass to Read at Sterling College (FREE!)



The big-hearted and widely revered fiction and nonfiction writer Rick Bass will stop by Sterling College to read from his recent book of nonfiction, Why I Came West, a finalist for the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award.  This reading will be FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

            WHEN:  February 14, 2011 (6:30pm)
            WHERE:  Simpson Hall, Sterling Campus, Craftsbury, Vermont

Bass is the author of twenty-four books of fiction and nonfiction, including the The Watch, The Hermit's Story, Winter:  Notes from Montaina, The Book of the Yaak, The Lost Grizzlies, and most recently Nashville Chrome.  He has received the PEN/Nelson Algren Award for The Watch, the James Jones Fellowship Award, multiple Pushcart Prizes, and the O. Henry Award.

Here is an interview with BookPage wherein Bass discusses how he combines literary art with vigorous environmental activism.