AAM: Keynote Speakers

Keynote Speakers

We are pleased to announce Terry Tempest Williams and Michael Chabon as keynote speakers for the 2008 Annual Meeting in Denver.

Monday, April 28
Terry Tempest Williams

Terry Tempest Williams is a naturalist and advocate for freedom of speech known for her impassioned and lyrical prose. She is the author of such environmental literature as Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field, Desert Quartet, Leap, Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert, and The Open Space of Democracy.

Williams is the recipient of the Robert Marshall Award from the Wilderness Society, the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western American Literature Association and the Wallace Stegner Award given by the Center

for the American West. She is currently the Annie Clark Tanner Scholar in Environmental Humanities at the University of Utah. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Orion Magazine and numerous anthologies worldwide.

Wednesday, April 30
Michael Chabon

	Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon has written numerous books, articles, essays and screenplays. His first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, was originally written for his master’s thesis and became a New York Times bestseller. His other novels include Wonder Boys, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, the young adult novel Summerland and most recently The Yiddish Policemen’s Union. Chabon is also the author of two collections of short stories, A Model World and Other Stories and Werewolves in Their Youth. Chabon’s story Son of the Wolfmanwas chosen for the 1999 O. Henry collection and
for a National Magazine Award. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which won the Pulitzer, was selected by the American Library Association as one of the Notable Books of 2000 and was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.