Porter Shreve

Porter Shreve

Porter Shreve is the author of three novels: The Obituary Writer, named a 2000 New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for both the Great Lakes Books Award and the Society of Midland Authors Award; Drives Like a Dream; and When the White House Was Ours, to be published on the eve of the Fall for the Book Festival. Shreve is the co-editor of three anthologies, including Outside the Law: Narratives on Justice, and three textbooks, including The Contemporary American Short Story. His short stories, essays and reviews have appeared in many publications, including Witness, Northwest Review, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Boston Globe and Salon. He has taught undergraduate and graduate fiction writing and literature at the University of Michigan, the University of Oregon, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and has taught at Purdue since Fall 2004. More complete information is available at www.portershreve.com.

Event
Novelist Porter Shreve
When: Fri, Sep 26, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Where: Provident Bank Tent, Outside Johnson Center, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (map)
Description: This native Washingtonian reads from his third novel, When the White House Was Ours, set in 1976 and loosely based on his own childhood, in which he and his family started an alternative school called “Our House Is a Very, Very, Very Fine House.” A 3 p.m. reception precedes the event.