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UMKC Cockefair Chair Writer-In Margot Livesey discusses her career in conversation with Angela Elam, host of UMKC's New Letters on the AirTime: Wednesday March 24, 2010 6:30 p.m.Location: Kansas City Public Library, Plaza Branch, Truman Forum, Kansas City, MO 64112Phone: 816-701-3407 to make reservations to attend.Author: Margot Livesey grew up in a boys' private school in the Scottish Highlands where her father taught, and her mother, Eva, was the school nurse. After taking a B.A. in English and philosophy at the University of York in England she spent most of her twenties working in shops and restaurants and learning to write. Her first book, a collection of stories called Learning By Heart, was published by Penguin Canada in 1986. Since then Margot has published six novels: Homework, Criminals, The Missing World, Eva Moves the Furniture, Banishing Verona and The House on Fortune Street. Margot has taught at Boston University, Bowdoin College, Brandeis University, Carnegie Mellon, Cleveland State, Emerson College, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Tufts University, the University of California at Irvine, the Warren Wilson College MFA program for writers, and Williams College. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the N.E.A., the Massachusetts Artists' Foundation and the Canada Council for the Arts. Margot is currently a distinguished writer in residence at Emerson College. She lives with her husband, a painter, in Cambridge, MA, and goes back to London and Scotland whenever she can. Alice Sebold says, "Every novel of Margot Livesey's is, for her readers, a joyous discovery. Her work radiates with compassion and intelligence and always, deliciously, mystery.". What: Margot Livesey will discuss her career in conversation with Angela Elam, and answer audience questions. She will autograph copies of her books purchased from Rainy Day Books, on our website and / or at our Author Event. When: Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 6:30 PM Where: A Rainy Day Books Author Event at The Kansas City Public Library, Plaza Branch, Truman Forum, 4801 Main Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112 Admission Package: This event is open to the general public. Call 816-701-3407 to make reservations to attend. All Author Event Book Sales are Final and Non-Returnable.