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November 21, 2005
Conversations with Mary Gordon, MMC's Writer-in-Residence
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 (New York, NY) On Wednesday, December 7, the Writing Center at Marymount Manhattan College will host the second session of Conversations with Mary Gordon at 6:30 p.m. in the College's Regina Peruggi Room (Second Floor, Main).
Mary Gordon, Marymount Manhattan College's 2005-2006 Writer-in-Residence, is an award-winning author of novels such as The Company of Women, Men and Angels, and The Other Side. She has also written Temporary Shelter, a book of short stories, as well as a book of essays, Good Boys and Dead Girls, and a memoir about her father entitled The Shadow Man. She is the recipient of the Lila Acheson Wallace-Reader's Digest Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Gordon currently is the chair of the English Department at Barnard College. There will be a question and answer session to follow her program, as well as a book signing.
The Writing Center, which opened in February 1995 at Marymount Manhattan College, encourages the craft of writing through instruction, programs, and user-friendly facilities. Writers of every level receive expert assistance from Writing Center Director Lewis Burke Frumkes and additional members of the MMC faculty. The Center's resources include a literary library, publications, audio and video archives and writing carrels equipped with personal computers. In addition to the Writers' Conference and Writing Intensive, the Writing Center also features many unique events, courses and workshops throughout the year, including the Best Selling Authors Series; monthly workshops celebrating various aspects of the writing business and craft; and clinics designed to assist writers with works-in-progress.
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