Margaret Lazarus Dean

Location

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

Presentation Type

Presentation

Start Date

17-9-2019 1:00 PM

Description

Professor Dean will discuss her writing on American spaceflight: The Time It Takes to Fall (Simon & Schuster, 2007), a novel set in the aftermath of the Challenger disaster, Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight (Graywolf Press, 2015) an award-winning nonfiction book documenting the last days of the space shuttle program, and Endurance (Knopf, 2017), a memoir she co-wrote with astronaut Scott Kelly. She is the recipient of numerous literary and teaching awards, including an NEA Literature Fellowship.

Comments

Featured Speaker

Convocation Credit: Society and the Arts & Sciences

Share

COinS
 
Sep 17th, 1:00 PM

Margaret Lazarus Dean

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

Professor Dean will discuss her writing on American spaceflight: The Time It Takes to Fall (Simon & Schuster, 2007), a novel set in the aftermath of the Challenger disaster, Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight (Graywolf Press, 2015) an award-winning nonfiction book documenting the last days of the space shuttle program, and Endurance (Knopf, 2017), a memoir she co-wrote with astronaut Scott Kelly. She is the recipient of numerous literary and teaching awards, including an NEA Literature Fellowship.