Renowned authors John Elder, Lynne Anderson, and Jane Brox will be holding a reading on Sterling College’s campus, as part of the “Writing in Place” summer writers’ workshop. The reading will be on Tuesday, July 21, at 6:30 p.m. in Common House. This event is free and open to the public.

John Elder is a teacher, writer, and author of many books, articles, and essays, including Reading the Mountains of Home, Frog Run, and Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa: From Vermont to Italy in the Footsteps of George Perkins Marsh. He is also co-editor, with Robert Finch, of the Norton Anthology of Nature Writing. Elder’s books often bring together memoir and environmental history in ways that open up new landscapes to readers. John recently retired from Middlebury College, where he had been teaching since 1973, and is a member of the Sterling College Board of Trustees.

Lynne Anderson is the author of Breaking Bread: Recipes and Stories from Immigrant Kitchens. Told through the voices of the immigrant cooks Lynne interviewed, Breaking Bread highlights the way food sometimes eases the transition to a new culture, serving as a powerful link to the past and a bridge into the future. In addition to writing, Anderson has designed and taught classes that explore culture through cooking with school-aged children in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Lynne currently directs the program for English Language Learning at Boston College and teaches courses in creative writing and literature. Her interests lie at the intersection of language, identity, food rituals, and sense of place.

Jane Brox is the author, most recently, of Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light, which was named one of the top ten nonfiction books of 2010 by Time magazine. She is the author of three other books: Clearing Land: Legacies of the American Farm; Five Thousand Days Like This One, which was a 1999 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction; and Here and Nowhere Else, which won the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award. Her essays have appeared in many anthologies including Best American Essays, The Norton Book of Nature Writing, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. She has been awarded grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Maine Arts Commission.

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