The Hawthorne Club and the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History of Middlebury, Vermont are sponsoring a presentation on “The Writer and the Movies” by Jay Parini on Thursday, April 14, 2016, 7 pm, at the Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society Church, 2 Duane Court, Middlebury. Parini, internationally recognized as a prolific and widely published poet, novelist, biographer, and critic, will discuss his experience with Hollywood. His novel The Last Station, set in the final tumultuous years of Leo Tolstoy’s life, was made into an Academy Award-nominated film starring Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer. Film adaptations currently underway are of his historical novel Benjamin’s Crossing, and his recent biography of Gore Vidal. Admission is free. Parking is available at the nearby Middlebury High School. For more information visit www.henrysheldonmuseum.org or call the Henry Sheldon Museum at 802/388-2117.

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