Bozeman Magazine

Prizewinning writer Richard Ford will deliver the Montana State University 2019 Stegner Lecture at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 27, at the Museum of the Rockies.

 

A reception will follow the lecture, which will be titled “Appropriating the West (And Other Petty Larcenies).” Although the event is free and open to the public, space is limited and tickets must be reserved in advance.

 

Ford is a novelist, story writer, essayist and journalist.  He is the author of 13 books, which have been translated into 35 languages. He has been the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the Carnegie Medal and the PEN-Faulkner Award for fiction, as well as the Prix Femina in France, the Princess of Asturias Prize in Spain, the 2018 La Lettura Prize in Italy and Siegfried Lenz Prize in Germany.  He and his wife, Kristina Ford, live in East Boothbay, Maine, and in Billings.  He is Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University.

 

For more information, go to: http://www.montana.edu/history/index.html.

 

The lecture is sponsored by the Wallace Stegner Chair in Western American Studies at MSU, which continues the legacy of the late Wallace Stegner, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, short story writer, environmentalist and historian who is now often called the “Dean of Western Writers.” Stegner spent part of his childhood in Montana, and he notably spoke at MSU shortly before his death in 1993. Based in the MSU College of Letters and Science, the MSU Wallace Stegner Endowed Chair in Western American Studies focuses on teaching and research in history, literature and philosophy with a concentration on pressing Western issues and is supported by the Stegner Chair Endowment.