Historical Research in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction

Come join Depaul in a reading and discussion with Kathleen Rooney and Miles Harvey

About this Event

Link to online event: https://depaul.zoom.us/j/98118830167

This event is moderated by Amy M. Tyson, who is an Associate Professor in the Department of History.

This event is co-sponsored by the English department & History department. The program is also a part of The Visiting Writers Series.

Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press and a founding member of Poems While You Wait. Her most recent books include the national bestseller Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk and The Listening Room: A Novel of Georgette and Loulou Magritte. Her World War I novel Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey has just been published by Penguin.

Miles Harvey is the author of The King of Confidence, a recent New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice selection. He also wrote the national and international bestseller The Island of Lost Maps, as well as Painter in a Savage Land, which was named a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year. A former recipient of a Knight-Wallace journalism fellowship, he teaches creative writing at DePaul, where he is a founding editor of Big Shoulders Books.