Tayari Jones Reading: Mandatory Attendance

The Mary E. Rolling Reading Series 

with support from the Joseph L. Grucci Poetry Endowment,

the Pennsylvania Center for the Book, the University Libraries,

the Department of English, and the College of the Liberal Arts

presents:

Tayari Jones

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

7:30 p.m.

Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library

Tayari Jones is the author of three novels: Leaving Atlanta, The Untelling, and Silver Sparrow. The American Booksellers chose Silver Sparrow as the #1 Indie Next pick for June 2011. Jones will embark upon a national tour with media coverage to include O Magazine, Vogue, and Poets and Writers among other venues. She was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia where she spent most of her childhood. Although she has not lived in her hometown for over a decade, much of her writing centers on the urban south. She is a 2011 Radcliffe Institute Fellow at Harvard University for the 2011-2012 academic year.