Writer Lucy Ferriss to Give Westminster School Reading Nov. 15

Writer Lucy Ferriss will give a reading at Westminster School Nov. 15 as part of the school’s Friday Nights at Westminster series. The student readers will be sophomore Lara Connor and junior Tunji Osho-Williams.

Ferriss is the author of 10 books, including “A Sister to Honor,” “The Lost Daughter,” “Nerves of the Heart” and the memoir “Unveiling the Prophet: The Misadventures of a Reluctant Debutante.” She has also written short fiction and essays that have appeared most recently in The New York Times, Missouri Review, Shenandoah, Michigan Quarterly Review and Georgia Review and received recognition from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Faulkner Society, the Fulbright Commission and the George Bennett Fund, among others.

Ferriss’ 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 Friday Nights at Westminster series is made possible by generous grants from the Ford-Goldfarb English Department Enrichment Fund, the McKinley Fund and the Connell Fund.