[Yale-readings] 4-5, 2pm: Belinda McKeon Reading

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Belinda McKeon Reading

Thursday, April 5, 2:00pm
Location: Beinecke Library, Room 38

Author Belinda McKeon<http://www.belindamckeon.com/> will give a reading from her novel Solace<http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/9797335> (2011). McKeon will also discuss the theme of literary research in her writing and her own literary archives. The forum will conclude with viewing some of the manuscripts of the late-18th-century/early-19th-century author Maria Edgeworth, who figures in Solace (one of the central characters of the novel, Mark, is a graduate student writing a dissertation on Maria Edgeworth).

Belinda McKeon was born in Ireland in 1979. Her debut novel, Solace was published by Scribner in 2011. It was voted Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book of the Year 2011, as well as being named a Kirkus Outstanding Debut and winning the Sunday Independent Best Newcomer award at the Irish Book Awards. McKeon lives between Brooklyn and Ireland and has written on the arts for The Irish Times since 2000. As a playwright, she has had work produced in New York and Dublin, and is currently under commission to the Abbey Theatre.

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