Authors Anne LaMott and Mark Salzman to visit Luther College the end of September

Anne Lamott

Luther College has announced that award-winning authors Anne Lamott and Mark Salzman will speaks at the 2013 Luther College Writers Festival the end of September.

Lamott, a widely acclaimed writer from San Francisco, is the author of several New York Times bestselling books of fiction and nonfiction. In 1994, she published the widely acclaimed "Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life." She is also the author of "Operating Instructions," a memoir of her son's first year, as well as "Travelling Mercies," "Plan B" and "Grace (Eventually)," three books in which she describes in deeply comic and occasionally irreverent essays her journey toward faith. Her most recent book is "Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers (2012)."  Lamott will speak and sign books at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, September 28th, in the Center for Faith and Life Main Hall.

Salzman is best known for his 1986 memoir "Iron and Silk," in which he describes his experiences living in China as an English teacher in the early 1980s.  His 1994 novel, "The Soloist," was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and tells the story of a world-famous cellist, a one-time child prodigy who has lost his ability to play the instrument on stage.  His novel "Lying Awake" captures an intensely interior voice of a cloistered nun in contemporary Los Angeles who begins to experience mystical visions, only to discover that they stem from mild epileptic seizures.  Salzman will speak at 4:00 p.m. Friday, September 27th.

For more information about the Luther College Writers Festival, go to https://www.luther.edu/writersfestival/.

Mark Salzman