Noted author Elizabeth Kostova will be on campus Sept. 9 and 10 as part of the Cooper Living Arts Series.
The first of her three novels, The Historian, holds the distinction as the first debut novel in U.S. publishing history to open at No. 1 on the New York Times Bestseller List, has been translated into 40 languages, and won Quill and Independent Bookseller Awards.
Ms. Kostova has also had her short fiction, poetry, and essays appear in various periodicals and anthologies such as The Mississippi Review, Poets & Writers Magazine, The Best American Poetry, The Michigan Quarterly, and Another Chicago Magazine. She has taught in programs at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, the University of Michigan, Drexel University, the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and Penn State - as well as at the Sozopol Seminars on the Bulgarian Black Sea and Bear River Writers’ Conference in northern Michigan. She reads and lectures internationally and is co-founder of the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation, which provides competitive opportunities for Bulgarian writers and translators, as well as opportunities for native-English writers to travel to Bulgaria.
Now in its third year, the Cooper Living Arts Series is made possible by the generosity of Christ School alumnus Edwin Cooper ’81, P’19, P’23 and his wife, Andrea P’19, P’23. Learn more about this special component of Student Life at this link.