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VIRTUAL: An Evening with Madeline Miller

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Champaign Public Library
Date
Mar 3, 2022   7:00 - 8:00 pm  
Speaker
Madeline Miller
Registration
Registration
E-Mail
librarian@champaign.org
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Originating Calendar
Women's Resources Center

Join us for an evening with Madeline Miller, one of the leaders in Greek retellings, New York Times bestselling author, Orange Prize Fiction winner, to discuss her works, Song of Achilles and Circe. Madeline Miller’s first novel, The Song of Achilles, was awarded the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction and was a New York Times bestseller. Her second novel, Circe, was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. Before she was a novelist, Madeline Miller earned her BA and MA in Classics from Brown University, and she taught and tutored Latin, Greek and Shakespeare to high school students for more than fifteen years. Her novels have been translated into over twenty-five languages, and her essays have appeared in the Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Lapham's Quarterly and on npr.org. This program is presented in partnership with multiple Illinois libraries. 

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