Novelist to hold book talk at Crowder's Longwell Museum

(From Crowder College)

Crowder College Board of Trustees President, Andy Wood, will host a book talk with award winning author Whitney Terrell, Tuesday, November 29, 6:30pm in the Longwell Museum. The event is free and open to the public. Mr. Terrell will also make a presentation to students at 12:30pm in the museum.

Terrell’s newest novel, The Good Lieutenant, was recently nominated for the 2017 Andrew Carnegie medal for Excellence in fiction and nonfiction.

Terrell is an assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He is a graduate of Princeton University and has an MFA from Iowa Writer’s Workshop. His first novel, The Huntsman, was a New York Times notable book. His nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, Details, Harper’s Magazine, The New York observer, The Kansas City Star and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He was an Embedded Reporter in Iraq during 2006 and 2010, and covered the war for The Washington Post, Slate and NPR.

You may find more information at: whitneyterrell.com