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Madison Smart Bell is a professor of English at Goucher College and the prize-winning author of 22 books, including 15 novels, two biographies, three short story collections, and a fiction writing textbook, as well as being an active literary journalist. Among numerous other honors for his writing, Madison was a National Book Award Finalist, PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist and winner of an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction for All Souls Rising, the first book in his fictional trilogy chronicling the life of Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution he led from 1791 to 1804.
Andrew Moore is an internationally acclaimed photographer and filmmaker known for his large format color photographic series of architectural structures and landscapes around the world, including Cuba, Russia, Detroit, the Great Plains of the US, and most recently, Alabama. Andrew’s latest work, Blue Alabama, includes a story by Madison, with whom he shared the journey and affinity for the subject that resulted in the book. Andrew’s many awards include a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Andrew’s photographs appear in more than 50- public collections and have been collected in in six published books. Andrew has taught at Princeton and New York’s School of Visual Arts.
Who better to moderate this conversation about words, images and the various ways of presenting them than classmate Ellen Levy, a Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt Institute and the author of Criminal Ingenuity: Moore, Cornell, Ashbery and the Struggle between the Arts? Ellen, who is herself at work on another book, has been joining Madison and Andrew in conversation since their Princeton days. She will be an insightful moderator for what is sure to be a fascinating conversation about the journeys of these extremely talented and versatile creators, their work and creative evolutions, and the inspirations that have been important to them. The conversation will run approximately 90 minutes, including 30 minutes of Q&A.
See you December 5 at 11:30 Eastern!
Kathryn Reimann
Bruce Petersen
Co-producers, Class of 1979 Authors and Artists Series