Tonight, Monday, April 14 at 9pm, New Hampshire Public Television broadcasts the latest installment of the New Hampshire Authors’ Series.

Local humorist Rebecca Rule interviews former Poet Laurete and Pulitzer Prize winner Maxine Kumin in an engaging discussion on the subject of writing.

The author of 16 books of poems, Maxine Kumin has written 3 essay collections, a collection of short stories, 4 novels and an animal rights murder mystery, Quit Monks or Die!. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 and the Aiken Taylor Prize, the Poets’ Prize and the Ruth E. Lilly Poetry Prize and a grant from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and a National Council on the Arts fellowship.

Join local humorist Rebecca Rule and former Poet Laurete and Pulitzer Prize winner Maxine Kumin for an engaging afternoon of discussion and laughter on the subject of writing. The event is on Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 2pm in the Dimond Library 5th Floor reading room. The program is free and open to all, but seating is limited. Please register online or call 862-1541.

The author of 16 books of poems, Maxine Kumin has written 3 essay collections, a collection of short stories, 4 novels and an animal rights murder mystery, Quit Monks or Die!. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 and the Aiken Taylor Prize, the Poets’ Prize and the Ruth E. Lilly Poetry Prize and a grant from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and a National Council on the Arts fellowship. She served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress before that post was renamed Poet Laureate of the United States, and as the Poet Laureate of New Hampshire from 1989 to 1994.

In the style of Bravo’s Inside the Actors Studio, Rule serves as host and interviewer for The New Hampshire Authors’ Series from Dimond Library. Three times a year, the Authors’ Series features an author who lives, summers, teaches or was born in New Hampshire.

Interviews are conducted in front of a live audience (with an opportunity for questions from the audience) and recorded by New Hampshire Public Television for future broadcast.

The Friends of the Library at UNH continues its series of one-on-one conversations with authors who have ties to the Granite State Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008, at 2 p.m. when local author Rebecca Rule interviews bestselling author and UNH professor of English Meredith Hall before a live audience in Dimond Library’s 5th Floor Reading Room.

The program is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. Reservations may be made online, via email to nh.authors@unh.edu, or by calling 862-1541.

Hall’s first book, a memoir titled “Without a Map”, was included on the New York Times Extended Bestseller List. She was the 2005 recipient of the Gift of Freedom Award, a $50,000 writing grant from A Room of Her Own Foundation. She also received the Maine Arts Commission’s 2005 Individual Artist Fellowship, and is a MacDowell fellow.

Hall won the 2005 Pushcart Prize with her first essay, which was also a “Notable Essay” in “The Best American Essays 2005.” Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Southern Review, Fourth Genre, Five Points and many other journals and anthologies.

Three times per year, in the style of Bravo’s Inside the Actors’ Studio, Yankee humorist, book reviewer and author Rebecca Rule invites poets, fiction and non-fiction writers, and journalists with a connection to New Hampshire to share their insights and discoveries as they pursue their passion for writing.

These one-on-one interviews are conducted in front of a live audience and recorded by New Hampshire Public Television for future broadcast. There will be an opportunity for members of the audience to ask questions, light refreshments will be served after the interview and both authors will be available to sign their books.

To learn more about the series or to receive updates, e-mail nh.authors@unh.edu or call 862-1540.

The Friends of the Library continues its series of one-on-one conversations with authors who have ties to the Granite State Sunday, Oct. 28, 2007, at 2 p.m. when local author Rebecca Rule interviews award-winning writer and illustrator David Carroll before a live audience in Dimond Library’s 5th Floor Reading Room. The program is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. Please reserve a space online, e-mail nh.authors@unh.edu or call (603) 862-1541.

Author and illustrator of three widely acclaimed natural histories — The Year of the Turtle, Trout Reflections and Swampwalker’s Journal — Carroll is an active lecturer and turtles/wetlands preservation advocate. His art and writing, as well as his fieldwork with turtles and wetlands, has been widely recognized, and his botanical and forestry paintings have earned him awards from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the International Society of Arboriculture. He is the 2006 recipient of a $500,000 McArthur Foundation “genius grant.”

Three times per year, in the style of Bravo’s Inside the Actors’ Studio, Yankee humorist, book reviewer and author Rebecca Rule invites poets, fiction and non-fiction writers, and journalists with a connection to New Hampshire to share their insights and discoveries as they pursue their passion for writing. These one-on-one interviews are conducted in front of a live audience and recorded by New Hampshire Public Television for future broadcast. There will be an opportunity for members of the audience to ask questions, light refreshments will be served after the interview and both authors will be available to sign their books.

The two most recent New Hampshire Authors’ Series events — the Mekeel McBride and Tomie DePaola interviews with Rebecca Rule — will be broadcast on NHPTV. The dates are Monday, June 18th at 8:00 (McBride) and 8:30 (DePaola) and again on Sunday, June 24th at 6:00 (McBride) and 6:30 (DePaola). NHPTV also provides access to the interviews online.

Tomie DePaola is an award-winning children’s book author and illustrator. The DePaola interview event was held in Dimond Library on Sunday, January 28. Mekeel McBride has published six books of poetry and is a faculty member in the UNH English department. The McBride event was held Sunday, April 22.

The New Hampshire Authors’ Series is produced by NHPTV in partnership with the Friends of the UNH Library and UNH Video Services.