Pulitzer Prize-winning author comes to Rice

Pulitzer Prize-winning author comes to Rice
Garry Wills to deliver distinguished guest lecture

BY JESSICA STARK
Rice News Staff

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills will present the Friends of Fondren Library’s 2008 Distinguished Guest Lecture at 7 p.m. Feb. 19 at Rice University.  The free lecture is open to the public and will be held in the Grand Hall at the Rice Memorial Center.

GARRY WILLS

Wills is the author of “What the Gospels Meant,” “Head and Heart: American Christianities,” “What Jesus Meant” and the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America.”

Brazos Bookstore is co-sponsoring the lecture and will be selling Wills’ books at the event.

Wills has won many other awards, among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities. He is currently professor of history emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Ill.

The Friends of Fondren Library was founded in 1950 as an association of library supporters interested in increasing the resources of Rice University’s Fondren Library and making them better-known. The organization raises funds to purchase rare books, manuscripts and other materials needed to support teaching and research at Rice.