In conjunction with the lecture series, Creekside is hosting The Gifford Lecture Book Group again this season. Sign up to read the lecture series books, discuss them at our book club meetings at Creekside and organize an evening in Syracuse to attend the coinciding lecture at the Civic Center. More details about dates and times will follow. Tickets for the Rosamond-Gifford Seried will be on sale following Labor Day. The third author of the series, Alexandra Fuller, will speak on December 5, 2011. Below is her biographical information, courtesy of the lecture series.
Alexandra Fuller was born the third of five children to Tim and Nicola Fuller in Glossop, England in 1969, during a brief attempt by her parents to live outside of Africa. The family moved back to Africa in 1972, to Rhodesia, where the Fullers became more absorbed by the country’s intensifying bloody struggle for independence, “War was like an episode of awful, non-stop weather to us,” Fuller has said.
Fuller was educated in Zimbabwe until she was eighteen, first at a small government boarding school near the family’s farm in the country’s eastern mountains and then at a private girls-only boarding school in Harare. Watching the celebratory atmosphere in the aftermath of independence turn into the horror of Mugabe’s one-man attempt to take a country to the grave with him has influenced Fuller’s work.
Fuller has written three books of non-fiction. Her debut book, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, was a New York Times Notable Book for 2002, the 2002 Booksense Best Non-fiction book, a finalist for the Guardian’s First Book Award and the winner of the 2002 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. Her 2004 Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier won the Ulysses Prize for Art of Reportage. Her latest book is The Legend of Colton H Bryant. She has also written extensively for magazines and newspapers including The New Yorker and National Geographic magazine. Fuller is currently at work on a book titled Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness which is a prequel/sequel to Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight. Fuller will appear at the Civic Center on Monday, December 5, 2011 at 7:30 pm.
Upcoming Authors for the 2011-2012 Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series: - Alexandra Fuller, Author, December 5th - Sherman Alexie, Author, March 27th - Laurie R. King, Author, April 2nd - Abraham Verghese, Author, May 7th Creekside Books and Coffee is a proud media sponsor and book vendor for the Gifford Lecture Series. We are honored to be working with the Friends of Central Library (FOCL), once again, for the 2011-2012 series.
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