Author and Holy Cross Professor, Bill Roorbach, to Give Reading On Campus

As part of the Visiting Writers Lecture Series, Bill Roorbach will give a reading on April 28 at 7:30 p.m. in Rehm Library (Smith Hall). The event is free and open to the public.

Roorbach is the author of Big Bend (2002), short stories, and The Smallest Color (2002), a novel. Roorbach’s nonfiction works include A Place on Water, with Robert Kimber and Wesley McNair (2004), Into Woods (2002), Summers with Juliet (1992), and The Art of Truth (2001), an anthology of literary memoirs, personal essays and literary journalism which he edited. His next book of nonfiction, Temple Stream, will appear in July 2005. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Harper’s, Granta and others. He is a professor in the English department and the Jenks Chair in Contemporary American Letters at Holy Cross.