Novelist Emily St. John Mandel to Give Westminster School Reading

Novelist Emily St. John Mandel will give a reading at Westminster School April 27 as part of the Friday Nights at Westminster series. The student reader will be junior Hannah Kaye.

Mandel is the author of four novels, most recently “Station Eleven,” which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and won the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Toronto Book Award and the Morning News Tournament of Books, and has been translated into 31 languages. A previous novel, “The Singer’s Gun,” was the 2014 winner of the Prix Mystere de la Critique in France. Her short fiction and essays have been anthologized in numerous collections, including “Best American Mystery Stories 2013.” She is a staff writer for The Millions and lives in New York City with her family.

Mandel’s Westminster School reading is free and open to the public and will begin at 7 p.m. in the Gund Reading Room of the school’s Armour Academic Center. The school is located at 995 Hopmeadow St. in Simsbury. Ample parking will be available in the parking lot adjacent to Armour Academic Center.

The event is made possible by generous grants from the Ford-Goldfarb English Department Enrichment Fund and the Patrina Family Fund.