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Alumni authors sought for Celebration Weekend
April 23, 2008
The St. Olaf Bookstore is hosting an Alumni Author Event during this year's Celebration Weekend, and organizers are looking for published Oles to participate.
The Alumni Author Event will take place Saturday, May 24, from 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. in Buntrock Commons right outside the bookstore. Each author will have a table where they can meet other Oles and sign copies of their books. Alumni authors who are interested in participating or would like more information should contact Ruth Block with the St. Olaf Bookstore at 507-786-3049 or block@stolaf.edu.
So far a number of authors have signed up to participate in the event. They include:
- Lowell Erdahl '53 -- Winsome Wisdom
- David Jarratt '58 -- Short Hops: My Life as a Flyer
- Jean Cross Rostollan '73 -- Glass Walls: Reality & Hope Beyond the Glass Ceiling
- Susan Swanson '77 -- The House in the Night, To Be Like the Sun and other children's books.
- Charles Whittlesey '77 -- The Islander
- Mary Carlsen '79 -- International Perspective on Social Work: Global Conditions and Local Practice
- Thomas Swift '95 -- Chief Bender's Burden: The Silent Struggle of a Baseball Star
- Angela Nickerson '95 -- A Journey into Michelangelo's Rome