FARMINGTON – Award-winning author Lily King will read from her work at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 17 in The Landing in the The University of Maine at Farmington Olsen Student Center. The reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by a signing by the author.
King is the author of “The Pleasing Hour” (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1999), “The English Teacher” (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005), and “Father of the Rain” (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2010) along with other short works.
Her first novel, “The Pleasing Hour,” won the Barnes and Noble Award as well as being a New York Times Notable Book and an alternate for the PEN/Hemingway Award. “The English Teacher” was a Publishers Weekly Top Ten Books of the Year, winner of the Maine Fiction Award and a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year. Her most recent novel, “Father of the Rain,” was the winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction, New York Times Editors’ Choice, Amazon’s Best Books of the Month for July 2010, An Indie Next List Notable selection for July 2010, O Magazine’s 2010 Summer Reading List and the 2011 Maine Literary Awards Winner, Book Award, Fiction.
In addition, King has received a MacDowell Fellowship and a Whiting Award. Her short pieces have been featured in literary magazines such as Ploughshares and Glimmer Train.
She graduated from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a B.A. in English Literature, and received her M.A. in Creative Writing from Syracuse University.
