John H. Ames Reading Series: Readings by Nebraska Authors

Readings are held Sundays in the Jane Pope Geske Heritage Room of Nebraska Authors. Programs begin at 2:00 PM. Call (402) 441-8516 for information.

Sunday, September 19, 2010, 2:00 PM
Rick Cypert
Rick Cypert, an English professor at Nebraska Wesleyan University since 1987, hails from Texas. He has degrees from McMurry College, Iowa State University and Texas Christian University. He has been intrigued with Nebraska mystery writer, Mignon Eberhart, writing a biography about her entitled, America's Agatha Christie: Mignon Good Eberhart: Her Life and Works, published by Susquehanna University Press in 2005. He then co-edited Dead Yesterday and Other Stories by Mignon G. Eberhart, published in Crippen & Landru's Lost Classics series in 2007.

Sunday, October 17, 2010, 2:00 PM
Glenna Luschei
Glenna Luschei currently lives in San Luis Obispo, California, but grew up in Beaver City and Lincoln, Nebraska. She studied at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the University of California-Santa Barbara. She is a poet, an editor and a translator; she has written a number of books, most recently, Witch Dance, in 2010.

Sunday, November 21, 2010, 2:00 PM
Joseph Wydeven
Joseph Wydeven, Professor Emeritus at Bellevue University, Bellevue, NE, earned degrees at Indiana University, DePaul University and Purdue University. Over the years, he has been interested in Nebraska author and photographer, Wright Morris. He presented a special program about Morris in the Heritage Room in 1985 and wrote a book about him, Wright Morris Revisited, which was published by Twayne in 1998. Since Wright Morris' book, The Home Place, has been the 2010 One Book One Nebraska title, it seems fitting to have Joe return to the Heritage Room to talk about one of his favorite topics.

All Ames Reading Series programs are taped for later broadcast on 5 City TV, Time Warner Cable Channel 5. The broadcast schedule is available here.

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