The 21st Winter Words series celebrates some of America’s leading authors, including Pulitzer Prize winners, New York Times best-sellers and the U.S. Poet Laureate. From a coming-of-age surf memoir to a new novel on the immigrant experience, their work represents distinctive voices and storytelling at its finest.
Luis Alberto Urrea
Pulitzer Prize Finalist // PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist
Luis Alberto Urrea was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his landmark work of nonfiction “The Devil’s Highway,” and is also the best-selling author of the novels “The Hummingbird’s Daughter,” “Into the Beautiful North” and “Queen of America,” as well as the story collection “The Water Museum,” a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist. He has won the Lannan Literary Award, an Edgar Award and a 2017 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, among many other honors. Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and American mother, he lives outside of Chicago and teaches at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
Winter Words
January 9 Alice McDermott
January 23 Tracy K. Smith
February 20 Christina Baker Kine
March 20 William Finnegan
*A signing will follow each discussion
*Explore Booksellers will have books for purchase
