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  • Wednesday, December 5, 2018 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 135 (Faculty Lounge)


Join the English Undergraduate Advisory Board for a tea featuring Artist-in-Residence, Jennifer Egan. Egan will be discussing her work and answering any questions you may have. Come out, sip tea, eat scones, and take a breather before finals!

Jennifer Egan is the author of several novels and a short story collection.  Her new novel, Manhattan Beach, published last fall and a New York Times bestseller, has been awarded the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.  Her previous novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times book prize.  Also a journalist, she has written frequently in the New York Times Magazine—most recently about pregnancy and childbirth among opioid-dependent women.

[Photo by Pieter M Van Hattem]