BATESVILLE -- Novelist and short story writer Ethan Canin is scheduled to give a reading at Lyon College on March 28.
The public reading is set for 7:30 p.m. in the Bevens Room of the Brown Fine Arts Building on the Lyon College campus.
Canin gave up practicing medicine to teach and write. His books include Emperor of the Air, The Palace Thief and Carry Me Across the Water. Canin's stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review and The Atlantic Monthly, among other magazines.
He studied at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in Iowa City, Iowa, and Harvard Medical School in Boston.
Canin will receive the Leila Lenore Heasley Prize created by Martha Heasley Cox, an alumna of Lyon College and Professor Emerita of San Jose State University in San Jose, Calif., to honor the memory of her sister, who was also an alumna.
The award is endowed to recognize some of the best living writers in the country and to bring those writers to Batesville. Committee members select winners from a list of nominated contemporary authors. Previous winners include Donald Harington, Kent Haruf, Jill McCorkle, William Least-Heat Moon, Sena Jeter Naslund and Jayne Anne Phillips.
Admission to the reading is free and open to the public.
Lyon College, which is at 2300 Highland Road in Batesville, is about an hour and a half northeast of Little Rock and just over two hours west of Memphis.
Metro on 03/19/2019