Jennifer Clement and John Burnham Schwartz will join us at Literary Sojourn
Jennifer Clement and John Burnham Schwartz will join us at Literary Sojourn
Dear Literary Sojourn fans,
We are thrilled to announce that authors John Burnham Schwartz and Jennifer Clement will join us in Steamboat Springs at the 2019 Literary Sojourn this fall. These two critically acclaimed writers join Esi Edugyan, Rebecca Makkai and Madeline Miller on stage for the 27th annual festival.
Read on for more about these two powerhouse authors…

Jennifer Clement

Jennifer Clement is President of PEN International—the first woman to be elected since the organization was founded in 1921. Among many honors for her work, the internationally acclaimed novel Prayers for the Stolen was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist, and winner of the Gran Prix des Lectrices Lyceenes de ELLE and the Sara Curry Humanitarian Award. Her most recent novel, Gun Love, was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award, a New York Times Editor’s Choice and one of O, The Oprah Magazine’s Best Books to Read. Award-winning author Rick Bass declares Clement “one of our most inventive novelists. There’s no telling what she’ll see. Whatever it is, it’s something right in front of us, but—here is the magic trick—something we have never before seen. Gun Love is an amazement: fierce, inventive, tender.” She is also the author of the memoir Widow Basquiat, about New York City in the early 1980s and the painter Jean-Michel Basquiat. NPR rated it one of the best books of 2015 in seven different categories. Vogue called it “essential summer reading.”
Library copy of Gun Love Library copy of Prayers for the Stolen Library copy of Widow Basquiat: A Love Story

John Burnham Schwartz

John Burnham Schwartz is the author of the bestselling novels The Commoner, Claire Marvel, Bicycle Days and Reservation Road, which was made into a motion picture based on his screenplay. His forthcoming novel, The Red Daughter, was inspired by the remarkable life of Joseph Stalin’s only daughter. Past Sojourn author Lauren Groff says, “Schwartz has drawn such a fine and generous portrait of Stalin’s daughter—a difficult, complicated, and deeply sympathetic woman—that I read his novel in a single great draught, and ever since have been worried about Svetlana as though she were a close and troubled friend of mine. The Red Daughter is a lustrous book.” A winner of the Lyndhurst Foundation Award for mastery in the art of fiction, Schwartz has taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Harvard University and Sarah Lawrence College, and is currently Literary Director of the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference. Schwartz’s work has been translated into more than 20 languages, and his journalism has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Boston Globe and Vogue. In 2018 he was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Writing for his work as a screenwriter of the HBO Film The Wizard of Lies, starring Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer.
Library copy of The red Daughter Library copy of Northwest Corner Library copy of The Commoner
Library copy of Claire Marvel Library copy of Reservation Road Library copy of Bicycle Days

Save the date!

Literary Sojourn will be held Saturday, September 7, 2019. The festival returns to the beautiful Strings Pavilion, providing a full afternoon of literature among the fall foliage. Tickets for Literary Sojourn will go on sale in June.
Keep watching your Literary Sojourn newsletters and www.literarysojourn.org for more information, as our Master of Ceremonies announcement is yet to come!
See you at the Sojourn!
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February 27, 2019
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