Margaret-Love Denman Reading
Please join us for a reading and conversation with Margaret-Love
Denman, author of Daily, Before Your Eyes, on Tuesday, October 18
at 3:30 p.m.
in Bracken Library room 225.
Fiction writer Margaret-Love Denman was born in Oxford, Mississippi, and educated at the University of Mississippi. In 1990, she published her first novel, A Scrambling After Circumstances, which was nominated for both the PEN/Faulkner and PEN/Hemingway Awards. In 1991, she joined the faculty of the University of New Hampshire where she directs the university’s creative writing program. She has published two works of nonfiction with Barbara Shoup, Novel Ideas: Contemporary Authors Share the Creative Process (2001) and Story Matters (2005).
Comments on her latest novel, Daily, Before Your Eyes (2005):
“Margaret-Love Denman creates intricate worlds that are historically rich, varied in generational perspective and portrayed with enviable linguistic grace.” Valerie Miner, author of Abundant Light and The Low Road
“Funny and dead-on insightful, Margaret-Love Denman takes us through New Orleans and Mississippi in this wonderfully engaging and insightful novel.” Margaret McMullan, author of In My Mother’s House and How I Found the Strong