 Spragg, McGuane scheduled for MSU Spring Writers Series
Mark Spragg and Tom McGuane, two distinctive writers who make their home in the West, will read from their works on the campus of Montana State University in the spring section of the MSU English Department Writers Series Mark. Spragg, a fresh voice who has won acclaim as a screenwriter, essayist, and novelist, will read at 7 p.m. Friday, March 23 in room 101 Reid Hall. Spragg's most recent screenplay, "Everything That Rises," starring Dennis Quaid, was produced by TNT and selected as a finalist for the 1999 Pen Center USA West Literary Award for teleplay. His most recent book, the memoir, "Where Rivers Change Direction," received the Mountains and Plains Book Award for Nonfiction for 2000. He has won the Blanchan Memorial Award from the Wyoming Arts Council, and his writing has appeared in numerous anthologies and periodicals. He has just completed work on a novel to be published in March 2002 by Riverhead books of Penguin/Putnam. Spragg and his wife, Virginia, live in Cody, Wyo. Thomas McGuane, one of the most acclaimed voices in American letters today, will read from his work at 7 p.m. Friday April 20 in Hager Auditorium of Museum of the Rockies. The reading is held in cooperation with the museum. McGuane is the author of eight novels, "The Sporting Club," "The Bushwhacked Piano," "Ninety Two in the Shade," "Panama," "Nobody's Angel," "Something to Be Desired," "Keep the Change," and "Nothing But Blue Skies." He has also written a collection of stories, "To Skin a Cat," as well as numerous screenplays and collections of essays. His most recent collection is "The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing" (Knopf, 1999). His stories and essays have appeared in, among other places, The New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, and Harper's. McGuane was born in Michigan, received his Master's of Fine Arts degree from Yale, and was a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford. He and his wife, Laurie, live on a ranch in Sweet Grass County. A reception will follow both readings, which are free and open to the public. For more information, contact the MSU English Department, 994-3768.
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