Paul Harding '92 to Discuss 'This Other Eden' at Amherst College on Feb. 23

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A headshot of Paul Harding and a cover of "This Other Eden" featuring an illustration of an apple

English alumnus and National Book Award finalist Paul Harding '92 will discuss his latest book, "The Other Eden," on Friday, Feb. 23, from 5-6:30 p.m. at Johnson Chapel, Amherst College during an event called called "On the Same Page with Paul Harding."

National Book Award winner Justin Torres will join Harding in conversation while Amherst College Assistant Professor of English Amelia Worsley will moderate, and Amherst College President Michael Elliott and National Book Foundation Director of Programs and Partnerships Natalie Green deliver introductions and remarks.

"This Other Eden" is Harding's third novel. Inspired by the true story of Malaga Island, an isolated island off the coast of Maine that became one of the first racially integrated towns in the Northeast, the book was shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize and the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction.

Harding is also the author of the New York Times bestselling novel "Tinkers," his debut novel about memory, consciousness, and our place in the natural world. It won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2010 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. His follow-up novel, "Enon," follows characters from the "Tinkers" universe and was named one of the best novels of 2014 by The Wall Street Journal, the American Library Association, and Kirkus Reviews.

He is director of the MFA in Creative Writing & Literature at Stony Brook University, and lives on Long Island, New York.

 

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