April 6, 2009

On Sunday, April 26 at 2pm, join humorist Rebecca Rule when she interviews Marie Harris, New Hampshire Poet Laureate 1999-2004.

The event will be held in the Courtyard Reading Room on Level 5 in Dimond Library.

The program is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. Please register online or call 862-1541.

Marie Harris is the author of four books of poetry including her most recent Your Sun, Manny: A Prose Poem Memoir. She is also the author of the popular children’s book G is for Granite: A New Hampshire Alphabet. Her work has appeared in poetry collections and literary magazines.

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 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 are recorded by New Hampshire Public Television for future broadcast.

This presentation is sponsored by the Friends of the UNH Library and New Hampshire Public Television and partially funded by a grant from the New Hampshire Humanities Council.

January 29, 2009

Last Sunday’s New Hampshire Authors’ Series from the UNH Library with local humorist and author of Live Free and Eat Pie, Rebecca Rule and bestselling author and conservationist, Sy Montgomery will be broadcast on New Hampshire Public Television tonight – Thursday, January 29th at 9:30 p.m..

If you missed the October event with William Tapply, author of dozens of books on fly fishing and the Brady Coyne mystery series, his interview with Becky will also be broadcast on NHPTV tonight at 9 p.m.

Enjoy the shows!

Also, you can now register for the last event in this year’s series: Marie Harris on Sunday, April 26th.

The Sy Montgomery presentation was funded by the Drs. Lorus J. and Margery Milne Endowed Lecture Series for Literature and the Environment.

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.