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• Wednesday, Jan 27, 2021  3:30 pm

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The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences invites you to join us for the 2021 Jonathan and Maxine Marshall Distinguished Lecture, presented by Colson Whitehead. The Jonathan and Maxine Marshall Distinguished Lecture Series brings to Arizona State University nationally known scholars concerned with promoting culture through the humanities and a better understanding of the problems of democracy. This annual free public lecture is funded with an endowed gift from Jonathan and Maxine Marshall.

Colson Whitehead
Whitehead is the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of "The Underground Railroad" (an Oprah’s Book Club selection and winner of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize), "The Noble Hustle," "Zone One," "Sag Harbor," "The Intuitionist," "John Henry Days," "Apex Hides the Hurt," and one collection of essays, "The Colossus of New York." He was named New York’s 11th State Author in 2018. His newest book, "The Nickel Boys," was awarded the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. His reviews, essays, and fiction have appeared in a number of publications, such as the New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Harper’s and Granta. He has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, the Dos Passos Prize, a fellowship at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for John Henry Days.

Solmaz Sharif
Sharif is an assistant professor in ASU’s Department of English. She was born in Istanbul to Iranian parents and holds degrees from U.C. Berkeley, where she studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People, and New York University. Her work has appeared in The New Republic, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Granta and others. The former managing director of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, her work has been recognized with a “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize, Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and an NEA fellowship. She was most recently selected to receive a 2016 Lannan Literary Fellowship and the Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University. A former Stegner Fellow, she is currently a lecturer at Stanford University. Her first poetry collection, “Look,” was a finalist for the National Book Award.

To RSVP for the free, virtual event, visit: https://na.eventscloud.com/ereg/newreg.php?eventid=526267

To learn more about the annual lecture series, visit: thecollege.asu.edu/marshall-lecture