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Arts & Humanities Speaker’s Forum To
Feature Award-Winning Author Pamela Duncan March 5
Award-winning novelist Pamela Duncan will be the featured author
for the Arts and Humanities Speaker’s Forum at Northeast Alabama
Community College on March 5, 2009, at 10:00 a.m. Duncan’s
presentation will be held in the Tom Bevill Lyceum and is free
to the public. A book signing will follow, and copies of
Duncan’s books will be available for purchase in the lobby of
the Lyceum.
Duncan is the author of three novels—Moon Women (2001),
Plant Life (2003), and The Big Beautiful (2007).
Her first novel was a Southeastern Booksellers Association Award
Finalist; her second novel was awarded the 2003 Sir Walter
Raleigh Award for Fiction. Pamela Duncan also is the recipient
of the 2007 James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachian
South by the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
Duncan
was born in Asheville, North Carolina, but grew up in Black
Mountain, Swannanoa, and Shelby, North Carolina. She holds a BA
in journalism from The University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill and an MA in English/Creative Writing from North Carolina
State University in Raleigh. She lives in Cullowhee, North
Carolina, and teaches creative writing at Western Carolina
University.
 The Washington Post writes about
Duncan’s Plant Life, “Duncan has a fine ear for dialect,
which finds expression in a series of striking set-pieces...Well
crafted, with expert attention to the cadence of regional speech
patterns, these short pieces ring with the authority of oral
history...It is a novel with heart.” About Duncan’s Moon Women,
Publisher’s Weekly states, “In the tradition of Fannie Flagg and
Rebecca Wells comes a Southern-fried debut.... Duncan shows
promise as a from-the-heart, quirky storyteller.” Furthermore,
Southern author Lee Smith states about Duncan’s The Big
Beautiful, “Jane Austen meets Mayberry: for once, a real
romance, with a heroine worthy of it! Smart, sweet, and funny.
This is one big, beautiful, life-affirming novel.”
The 2009 NACC Arts and Humanities Speaker’s Forum is sponsored
by the English and Fine Arts division and the college’s English
honor society, Sigma Kappa Delta. For more information regarding
the Arts and Humanities Speaker’s Forum, contact Joan Reeves,
NACC Chair English and Fine Arts, at phone ext. 347 or
reevesj@nacc.edu. |
