CONWAY, Ark. (October 12, 2016) – Hendrix College will host writer Daryl Farmer, who will present “All the Luck You’ll Ever Need: A Tale from Alaska” on Thursday, Oct. 20, at 7:30 p.m. in Reves Recital Hall.
The event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception and book signing in Trieschmann Gallery.
Farmer will be in residence at Hendrix October 17 – 21, working with creative writing students on how best to transform experience into meaning and understanding.
Farmer is a fiction and nonfiction writer with special interest in writing about place, travel, and environment. In his first book, Bicycling Beyond the Divide: Two Journeys
into the West (2008), recipient of a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award and a Colorado Book Award finalist, Farmer writes about two bicycle trips he took across the American West, one when he was twenty years old and the second when he was forty. Bicycling Beyond the Divide is
less about cycling and more about personal change, the power of observation, environment, technology, and the people of the American West. Farmer reflects on the journals he kept during the first trip, giving the book an intertextual feel and allowing us to see the writer in conversation with his past self. He
is also the author of the short story collection, Where We Land.
Born in Colorado Springs, at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, Farmer developed a taste for the open road at an early age and has spent a life roaming the country and writing about its landscapes and people. He is an assistant professor at the University of
Alaska-Fairbanks, where he teaches nonfiction and fiction writing. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in creative writing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
“With writing that compares favorably to Paul Theroux, William Least Heat Moon, and John Steinbeck, Farmer assures us that the American spirit hasn't been completely deflated,” said Lee Gooden in ForeWord.
This event is sponsored by the Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Programs in Literature and Language, which are designed to enhance and enrich the study and teaching of literature and language at Hendrix College. For more information about this and future events, please contact Henryetta Vanaman,
501-450-4597 or vanaman@hendrix.edu.
About Hendrix College
Hendrix College is a private liberal arts college in Conway, Arkansas. Founded in 1876 and affiliated with the United Methodist Church since 1884, Hendrix is featured in Colleges That
Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think about Colleges and is nationally recognized in numerous college guides, lists, and rankings for academic quality, community, innovation, and value. For more information, visit
www.hendrix.edu.