Villanova University 2016 Literary Festival

The Africana Studies Program in conjunction with Villanova University’s 18th Annual Literary Festival presents the Ida B. Wells Lecture featuring author Asali Solomon, PhD.

The event will take place on Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. in Speakers’ Corner of Falvey Memorial Library. A reading and talk will be given by Dr. Solomon, one of the Literary Festival’s featured speakers.

Dr. Solomon is the author of the novel Disgruntled. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for her stories collected in Get Down, her first book; the volume was also a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. In 2007 she was named one of the National Book Foundation's “5 Under 35.” Dr. Solomon teaches English at Haverford College. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and two sons.

At the event, Dr. Solomon will read selections from her novel Disgruntled.

This event, co-sponsored by Falvey Memorial Library and the Department of English, is free and open to the public.

http://library.villanova.edu/events/event_series/literary-festival-lecture/2016-literary-festival-ida-b-wells-lecture-featuring-asali-solomon-phd