Visiting Writers Series: Stanley Crawford
The Visiting Writers Series at the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites you to a reading by Stanley Crawford. For more than 40 years, the VWS has brought outstanding poets and writers to the university campus for public readings of new work.
Stanley Crawford was born in 1937 and was educated at the University of Chicago, the Sorbonne, and the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of five novels, including: Log of the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine (first published in 1972 by Knopf and reissued by Dalkey Archive in 2008); Travel Notes (Simon and Schuster, 1967); Gascoyne (first published in 1966 and reissued by Overlook Press in 2006); and Some Instructions (American Literary Series, 1985), a classic satire on all the sanctimonious marriage manuals ever produced. He is also the author of two memoirs: A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small Farm in New Mexico and Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Smithsonian Magazine, and High Country News, and his work has been written about in The New Yorker. Currently he writes a monthly column, "Back on the Farm," for the Santa Fe edition of The Albuquerque Journal. He lives in Dixon, New Mexico, where he is co-proprietor of El Bosque Farm with his wife Rose Mary Crawford.
Visiting Writers Series events are sponsored by the MFA Program for Poets and Writers, the Juniper Initiative, the UMass Arts Council, and the UMass Alumni Association, the Mass Cultural Council, the Vice Provost of Research, the English Department, and the Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts.
All events are free, open to the public, and wheelchair accessible.
For more information, visit visitingwritersseries.blogspot.com.
