Author Ron Hansen to Give a Reading as Part of the Visiting Writers Series

As part of the Visiting Writers Lecture Series, author Ron Hansen will give a reading on March 30 at 7:30 p.m. in the Rehm Library. The event is free and open to the public.

Hansen was born in Omaha, Neb., and educated at Creighton University, the University of Iowa’s Writers Workshop, and at Stanford University, where he held a Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Fellowship. His first published novel was Desperadoes, which was followed by The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Mariette in Ecstasy, Atticus, and Hitler’s Niece. In Nebraska he collected stories that previously appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Harper’s Magazine, The Paris Review, and other quarterlies. He has also published a children’s book, The Shadowmaker, and edited two anthologies of short fiction, You Don’t Know What Love Is and You’ve Got to Read This. Hansen’s most recent novel is Isn’t It Romantic? He also recently published A Stay Against Confusion: Essays on Faith and Fiction. He has received fellowships from the Michigan Society of Fellows, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Lyndhurst Foundation, and was presented with an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Hansen has taught fiction and screenwriting at such institutions as Stanford, Michigan, Cornell, Iowa, Arizona, and is now the Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Santa Clara, where he earned an M.A. in spirituality in 1995.