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Writers At Work: Arthur Phillips

Start: 04/27/2011 6:30 pm

Arthur Phillips

Author: Arthur Phillips was born in Minneapolis and educated at Harvard. He has been a child actor, a jazz musician, a speechwriter, a dismally failed entrepreneur, and a five-time Jeopardy! champion.

His first novel, Prague, was named a New York Times Notable Book, and received The Los Angeles Times/Art Seidenbaum Award for best first novel. His second novel, The Egyptologist, was an international bestseller, and was on more than a dozen “Best of 2004” lists. Angelica, his third novel, made The Washington Post best fiction of 2007 and led that paper to call him "One of the best writers in America." The Song Is You was a New York Times Notable Book, on the Post's best of 2009 list, and inspired Kirkus to write, "Phillips still looks like the best American novelist to have emerged in the present decade. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages, and is the source of three films currently in development.

His fifth novel is entitled The Tragedy Of Arthur. He lives in New York with his wife and two sons.

Event: Arthur Phillips will discuss his career, her works, and answer audience questions. This event is part of the Writers At Work speaker series organized by Kansas City novelist Whitney Terrell and sponsored by The Kansas City Public Library, the English Department at the University Of Missouri - Kansas City and the Writers at Work Round Table.

Time/Location: This event is Wednesday, April 27, 6:30 p.m. at Kansas City Public Library, Central Branch, Helzberg Auditorium, 14 W. 10th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64105.

Admission: Complimentary and open to the public. Reservations requested, please call the Kansas City Public Library at (816) 701-3407.

A limited number of preautographed copies of Phillips's books will be available for purchase at this event from Rainy Day Books.

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