Event

hosted by: MAX APPLE

co-sponsored by: the CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM

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MARY KAY ZURAVLEFF's latest novel, Man Alive! (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), was named a 2013 Notable Book by the Washington Post, which called the book “a family novel for smart people.” She is also the author of The Bowl Is Already Broken and The Frequency of Souls. She has been the recipient of the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the James Jones First Novel Award, and she has just been named a recipient of a 2015 D.C. Individual Artist Fellowship. Mary Kay has taught writing at American University, Johns Hopkins University, and George Mason University. She has also written and edited extensively for the Smithsonian Institution. She lives in Washington, D.C., where she serves on the board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and is a cofounder of the D.C. Women Writers Group.