American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood
Speaker:
Marie Arana
20 Sep 2007
8:00 PM
Sun Room, Memorial Union
Marie Arana, editor of Washington Post Book World, was born in Peru of a Peruvian father and an American mother. She is the author of American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood, which was a finalist for the PEN-Memoir Award and the National Book Award. She is also the author of a collection of columns, The Writing Life: Writers on How They Think and Work, and a new novel Cellophane. Arana will speak about her experience as a hybrid American - an "American Chica" - and how she came to terms with this split cultural identity. Part of the Latino Heritage Month Celebration.
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This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.