Pebble Hill Books Symposium focuses on writer Buddy Nordan
Writer Lewis "Buddy" Nordan will be the focus of the second annual Pebble Hill Books Symposium Friday, Jan. 23, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., at the The Hotel at Auburn University and Dixon Conference Center. An international slate of scholars and writers, including Nordan himself and his friends and colleagues Clyde Edgerton and Hal Crowther, will convene to celebrate the much beloved author of four novels, three short story collections and a memoir. The symposium, sponsored by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts, showcases significant literary, arts and cultural figures with connections to Alabama. Nordan, a 1973 Auburn graduate with a doctorate in English, served as writer-in-residence for the University of Pittsburgh until his retirement in 2005. He is best known for the comically heartbreaking collection "Music of the Swamp," which won the Porter Fund Prize, a Best Fiction award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and a Notable Fiction award from the American Library Institute of Arts and Letters. For more information, visit http://media.cla.auburn.edu/cah/symposium.htm or call 844-4946.