Photo: Euan Kerr, Minnesota Public Radio/mpr.org

Richard Price is a novelist and screenwriter whose works are critically acclaimed for their stark, realistic look at the urban world. Several of his novels have been adapted for film including The Wanderers, Bloodbrothers, Sea of Love, Mad Dog and Glory, Clockers, and Ransom. In 1986, Price was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay for The Color of Money starring Paul Newman and Tom Cruise. He has also written teleplays for the HBO series The Wire for which he shared an Edgar Allen Poe Award and a Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award. His latest novel is Lush Life.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 7:30 p.m.  

Theatre Three

2800 Routh Street, #168,

Dallas, TX  75201

For ticket pricing and subscription information,

call 214-828-1715.

Photo: Susan Johann

Eric Bogosian is best known for writing and starring in the play, Talk Radio, as well as its film adaptation. For this work, he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and received the Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear Award. He received three Obie awards for solo performances Off-Broadway between 1980 and 2000. Bogosian has written a number of full-length plays including subUrbia, Griller, Red Angel, and Humpty Dumpty. He is the author of two novels, Mall and Wasted Beauty, and a novella, Notes from Underground. As an actor, Bogosian has appeared in numerous films and television programs including "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial," "Ararat," "Under Siege II," and "Wonderland." He currently stars in "Law & Order: Criminal Intent."

Tuesday May 19, 2009, 7:30 p.m.  

Theatre Three

2800 Routh Street, #168,

Dallas, TX  75201

For ticket pricing and subscription information,

call 214-828-1715.

Photo: Melissa Ann Pinney

Ann Patchett wrote her first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars, during a residential fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her second novel, Taft, was awarded the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for the best work of fiction in 1994, and her third novel, The Magician's Assistant, was short-listed for England's Orange Prize and earned her a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1994. She has also written for numerous publications, including the New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Gourmet, Paris Review, "O" the Oprah Magazine, and Vogue. Ann Patchett's most recent novel, Bel Canto, won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Described by the New York Times as America’s “Preeminent novelist of Roman Catholic mores,” MARY GORDON is frequently, and favorably, compared with Flannery O’Connor. Her work often explores conflicts that shape the lives of women through familial and social influence as with her novels Spending, The Company of Women, The Rest of Life, Final Payments, The Other Side, and Pearl. Notably, her memoir, The Shadow Man, examines the disappearance of her father from early life, and her most recent, Circling My Mother, tells of the slow loss of her mother, Anne, through dementia. Her other honors include the Lila Acheson Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, O. Henry Award for Best Short Story, and the Janet Heidegger Kafka Award (twice). She teaches at Barnard College.

Photo: Jerry Bauer

Louis Begley, a retired attorney, born in Poland and a Holocaust survivor, has written seven novels: Wartime Lies, The Man who was Late, As Max Saw It, About Schmidt, Mister's Exit, Schmidt Delivered, and recently Shipwreck. His novels have won numerous awards and been finalists in the National Book Awards and the National Book Critics Circle and been translated into fifteen languages. About Schmidt was the basis for the movie starring Jack Nicholson.

Photo: Paul Crave

Kimberla Lawson Roby, has written eight novels that have topped national bestselling charts, including The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, and The Austin Chronicle.  In addition, Ms. Roby’s first novel was nominated for Blackboard’s 1998 and 1999 "Fiction Book of the Year Award," and she received the Blackboard "Fiction Book of the Year Award" for 2001 for Casting the First Stone. Her latest work is Sin No More.

Photo: Lily Oei

Junot Díaz received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his debut novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.  He has written several short stories that have been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Story, and has also been part of the anthologies The Best American Short Stories and African Voices.  His short story collection Drown, published in 1996, was a New York Times Notable Book, an ALA Best Book of the Year, and was one of The Village Voice's 25 Best Books of the Year. Díaz has won several awards, most recently the Rome Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Photo: Marion Ettlinger

Candace Bushnell ’s most popular book, Sex and the City, and its two sequels were based on her column in the New York Observer and were adapted for television into the popular HBO series Sex and the City, starring Sarah Jessica Parker (which she reprised on the big screen). Her other works include a collection of novellas titled Four Blondes and the novels Trading Up and Lipstick Jungle, a New York Times Best-Seller which has also been adapted into a television series for NBC.

Ms. Bushnell's latest novel, One Fifth Avenue, is set for release in October 2008.

   Photo: Doug Barber

One of America's most beloved historians, McPherson received the Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom, his most famous book. In 2000 he was named the "Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities" by the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2007, he was awarded the $100,000 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for lifetime achievement in military history. His latest work, Tried by War, is a celebration and tribute to the life of Abraham Lincoln for the bicentennial of his birthday written in prose that is as eloquent as it is accurate.

This Writers' Studio is FREE and open to the public. Seating is limited and available on a first come, first serve basis.

Sponsored by The Writer's Garret and Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. A We the People initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

 Photo: Joshua Butler

Robert Olen Butler has published ten novels and five volumes of short fiction, one of which, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize. His work has appeared The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper’s, The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, Playboy, Zoetrope, The Paris Review and The Sewanee Review. His most recent collection, Intercourse, continues his exploration of the dramatic monologue in short short story form begun with his previous book, Severance.

Butler, a student of theater as well as a master of literature, will perform several of his monologues as part of a very special Writers Studio. NOTE: This program is recommended for mature audiences