Hutton Honors College
— Discussion Supper with John Crowley
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Discussion Supper with Fantasy Writer and Documentary Filmmaker John Crowley
IU alumnus John Crowley is an acclaimed novelist, short fiction writer, and documentary film writer and producer. His fiction, which is often categorized as science fiction or fantasy, includes Little, Big and Great Work in Time, both of which won the World Fantasy Award; AEgypt; Love and Sleep; The Translator; and most recently, Girlhood and Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land (an imaginary novel by the poet). He has received, among other awards, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature. In 1989, Mr. Crowley co-founded an innovative media production company, Straight Ahead Pictures, Inc., which specializes in making documentaries on subjects of American history and culture (the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Depression, the 1950s bomb-shelter hysteria, and the fitness craze in America, among others). His films have won numerous awards and been selected for major film festivals. He teaches fiction writing and screen writing at Yale and screen writing at Hampshire College. The supper is co-sponsored by the Wells Scholars Program. John Crowley will deliver a Branigin Lecture for the Institute for Advanced Study on Thursday, December 1, at 7 p.m. in Woodburn 101. The topic will be "Practicing the Arts of Peace."
Fall 2005 Programs
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