September 14, 2009

Join humorist and author of Live Free and Eat Pie, Rebecca Rule, when she interviews Marty Kelley, author and illustrator of seven books for children and recovering second grade teacher. Born in Manchester, NH in 1971, Marty is married, has two children, 3 chickens and 1 duck. His latest book is The Messiest Desk in 2009. Marty has also co-produced a “super cool punk rock version” of his book Summer Stinks!

In the style of Bravo’s Inside the Actor’s Studio, Rule serves as host and interviewer for The New Hampshire Authors Series from Dimond Library at the University of New Hampshire. 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 and web streaming on www.nhptv.org/authors.

Light refreshments will be served after the interview and authors will be available to sign their books.

The program is free and open to the public, but seating is limited.

For more information, email nh.authors@unh.edu or call (603) 862-1540.

September 26, 2008

Join humorist Rebecca Rule on Sunday, October 19th at 2:00pm when she interviews William Tapply. He is the author of 40 books, including New England-based mystery novels and a writer’s handbook, The Elements of Mystery Fiction: Writing a Modern Whodunit, used in writing classes and workshops across the country.

The event will be held in Dimond Library’s Courtyard Reading Room on Level 5. The program is free and open to all, but seating is limited. Please register online or call 862-1541.

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.

Tapply has also written a dozen books and nearly a thousand magazine articles, mostly about fly fishing and the outdoors, is a Contributing Editor for Field & Stream, a columnist for American Angler, and a member of the Editorial Board for The Writer magazine. He is also a professor of English and the Writer in Residence at Clark University.

Tapply and his wife, novelist Vicki Stiefel, live and write in Hancock, New Hampshire and run The Writers Studio at Chickadee Farm.

The New Hampshire Authors’ Series is sponsored by The Friends of the UNH Library.

September 18, 2008

The Friends of the UNH Library present The New Hampshire Authors’ Series for 2008-2009!

In the style of Bravo’s Inside the Actors Studio, author, book reviewer and humorist Rebecca Rule hosts a one-on-one conversation with an author who has ties to New Hampshire.

Interviews are conducted in front of a live audience and recorded by New Hampshire Public Television for future broadcast. Each interview is followed by a question and answer session, light refreshments, and a book signing.

Events are held Sundays at 2:00 in the UNH Library’s 5th Floor Reading Room and are free and open to the public, but seating is limited. To register, please visit The Friends of the Library website.

To learn more, receive updates or join the Friends of the UNH Library, please e-mail nh.authors@unh.edu or call (603) 862-1540.

The year, the schedule is as follows:

William G. Tapply
October 19, 2008—2:00pm
Prolific author and mentor to writers across the country, Bill Tapply’s latest mystery novel, Hell Bent: A Brady Coyne Novel will have just hit bookstores when he visits UNH. Tapply has written a dozen books on fly-fishing and the outdoors, is a Contributing Editor for Field & Stream and columnist for American Angler. He is a professor of English and the Writer in Residence at Clark University.

Sy Montgomery
January 25, 2009—2:00pm
Sy Montgomery has been called “part Indiana Jones and part Emily Dickinson.” Montgomery’s travels have taken her around the globe to remote places where she does research for her books, films and articles. Her first children’s book The Snake Scientist won a dozen national awards. Her latest book, for adults, takes her closer to home in rural NH–The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood became a national bestseller in 2006.

Marie Harris
April 26, 2009—2:00pm
Marie Harris, NH Poet Laureate from 1999-2004, is the author of four books of poetry–her most recent of which are Weasel in the Turkey Pen and Your Sun, Manny: A Prose Poem Memoir–and children’s books including the popular G is for Granite: A New Hampshire
Alphabet. Her travel articles have appeared in periodicals from the NY Sunday Times travel section to Corvette Fever magazine. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the NH State Council on the Arts and the VT Studio Center, and has been a Visiting Artist in classrooms throughout New England.

William Tapply and Sy Montgomery presentations are funded by the Drs. Lorus J. and Margery Milne Endowed Lecture Series on Literature and Environment.

March 24, 2008

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.

December 13, 2007

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.