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Saratoga Springs, NY (May 24, 2006) -
Tickets are still available for next week’s 2006 Yaddo Summer Benefit, a program celebrating the writers who have spent time at Yaddo and featuring authors Lynn Freed and A.M. Homes.
Tickets for the event, to be held 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 20, at the Yaddo Mansion in Saratoga Springs, are $150-$200. Please contact Dana Klein (dklein at our domain (please correct email address)) to inquire about tickets. A party will follow readings by Ms. Freed and Ms. Homes.
Freed, who has been a guest artist at Yaddo several times, is the author of the novels Friends of the Family, Home Ground, The Bungalow, The Mirror, and House of Women; the short story collection The Curse of the Appropriate Man; and, most recently, a book of essays, Reading, Writing, and Leaving Home: Life on the Page. She was the inaugural winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Katherine Anne Porter Award and is the recipient of several other grants and fellowships. A native of South Africa, she moved to New York for her graduate studies and now makes her home in California, where she is a Professor of English at the University of California at Davis.
Lynn Freed | |
A M Homes - Photo by Marion Ettlinger |
Homes is the author of the short story collections The Safety of Objects and Things You Should Know; the artists’ book Appendix A; and the novels The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers, Jack, Music for Torching, and the recently published This Book Will Save Your Life. Her fiction and nonfiction appears frequently in magazines such as Art Forum, Bomb, Blind Spot, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Mirabella, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Story, and Vanity Fair. She was born in Washington, D.C., and now lives and works in New York City, where she teaches writing at Columbia University and The New School.
Thanks to the generosity of the Capital Region community and the hard work of the members of the benefit committees, the event’s expenses can traditionally be kept to a minimum and more than 90 percent of the proceeds from the benefit are devoted to Yaddo’s artists’ residency program. This year’s committee chairs are Claudia Olsen and Patty HasBrouck.
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