Wait til I'm Dead Colloquium

The Departments of English, Department of Classics, the Center for Literary and Comparative Studies, The Thornton Wilder Society, and The Classical Association of the Atlantic States will sponsor A Colloquium on the Fiction of Thornton Wilder on Saturday, March 27, 2010.

The occasion marks the publication by the Library of America of Wilder's first five novels--The Cabala (1926), The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927), The Woman of Andros (1930), Heaven's My Destination (1935), and The Ides of March (1948). Malcolm Cowley described Wilder (1897-1975) as "the most neglected author of a brilliant generation."

The participants in the Wilder Colloquium include: Michael Dirda, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and Washington Post reviewer; J. D. McClatchy, a poet and an editor of the Library of America volume and the Yale Review; Tappan Wilder, Thornton Wilder's nephew and literary executor; Kurt Raaflaub, Emeritus Professor of Classics at Brown University, and many others.

This event is free and open to the public.

For more information, visit Wait till I'm Dead.