Thanks to the generosity of Washington University, Missouri Arts Council, and the Regional Arts Commission, the International Writers Center will present the Art of Biography Series as the first of the 2002-2003 season. Gerald Early, Director of the IWC, will introduce each visiting writer, who will participate in two programs—a formal reading followed by a reception on Monday evening, and a seminar with audience discussion on Tuesday afternoon. Programs will last about an hour. Writers will sign their work after each reading; books will be available for purchase courtesy of Washington University's Campus Bookstore. All programs are free and open to the public.

Carolyn Burke was born in Sydney, Australia, and holds a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, New York. Her book Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy (1996) has had the distinction of serving as the basis of an original musical performed at the University of Michigan Music School while also being named by the Modern Language Association as an outstanding book by an independent scholar. Her work includes Engaging with Irigaray (1994); translations of books by Luce Irigaray, This Sex Which Is Not One (1985) and The Ethics of Sexual Difference (1993); as well as critical essays in Women in Dada (1999), Julien Levy: Portrait of an Art Gallery (1998), and Mina Loy: The Woman and the Poet (1998). Burke is currently writing a life of the photographer Lee Miller, to be published in 2003.

Reading: 9 September, 7pm, WU West Campus Conference Center. Seminar: 10 September, 4pm, McMillan Cafe, Old McMillan Hall, Hilltop Campus.

Hazel Rowley was brought up in England and Australia and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She received her PhD in French Literature at the University of Adelaide. She is affiliated with the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro American Studies at Harvard. Rowley's first book, Christina Stead: A Biography, won the 1993 National Book Council's Banjo Nonfiction Award—Australia's equivalent of the Pulitzer. Her most recent book, Richard Wright: The Life and Times (2001), had cover reviews in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and The Philadelphia Inquirer, and was among the 2001 Washington Post Book World Raves. Her essay on Harper Lee ("Mockingbird Country") was published in The Best Australian Essays (1999). An essay on race in America, called "Barbed Wire and Barking Dogs," is forthcoming in Doubletake.

Reading: 4 November, 7pm, WU West Campus Conference Center.
Seminar: 5 November, 4pm, McMillan Cafe, Old McMillan Hall, Hilltop Campus.

Herbert Lottman was born in New York City and first went to Paris as a Fulbright fellow in 1949. He eventually returned to France and settled there, opening a European office for an American book publisher. Over the years Lottman has contributed to a number of American newspapers and magazines. He has published a dozen books in the United States, most of them also published in the United Kingdom and translated into French and Spanish. A number of his works have also appeared in German, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Polish, and Czech. The best-known of his works are Albert Camus: A Biography, first published in 1979; The Left Bank (1982); and biographies of Philippe Pétain, Gustave Flaubert, Colette, and Jules Verne. In 1991 Lottman was appointed Chevalier of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and was promoted to Officier in 1996.

Reading: 2 December, 7pm, WU West Campus Conference Center.
Seminar: 3 December, 4pm, McMillan Cafe, Old McMillan Hall, Hilltop Campus.