Dinty Moore at DePauw April 18 before returning next spring

Friday, April 13, 2018
Dinty Moore
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Dinty W. Moore, an American essayist and writer of both fiction and non-fiction books and winner of the 2008 Grub Street National Book Prize for Non-Fiction, is coming to DePauw University next Wednesday, April 18, as a guest of the James and Marilou Kelly Writers Series.

The 7:30 p.m. program will take place in the auditorium of DePauw’s Richard E. Peeler Art Center, and is presented free of admission charge.

Moore will return to DePauw in the spring of 2019 as the Mary Rogers Field and Marion Field-McKenna Distinguished University Professor of Creative Writing.

Moore worked as a documentary filmmaker, zookeeper, modern dancer and Greenwich Village waiter before finally realizing he wanted to write a memoir. Since then he has written four, as well as a number of books on the craft of writing.

His “Between Panic & Desire” won the Grub Street Nonfiction Book Prize, and he has published essays and stories in the Southern Review, Harpers, New York Times Sunday Magazine and other outlets.

A National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship recipient, Moore is the editor of Brevity, an online journal of flash nonfiction.

The Kelly Writers Series was established in 1998 with gifts from Marilou Morrell Kelly, a 1955 DePauw graduate.

An endowment gift by J. David Field, professor emeritus of English at DePauw, created the visiting professorship in 2007.

Appointments to this chair bring nationally recognized and practicing writers to DePauw as visiting and/or permanent members of the faculty.

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