The Miami Tufts Alliance is pleased to host

Jonathan Wilson reading from
Marc Chagall

Date & Time:
Saturday, December 1, 2007
5:00 pm – Registration
5:30 pm – Reading followed by Q&A
6:15 pm – Book signing and reception

Location:
Hosted by Tuti and Mario Fernandez, A83
961 Harbor Drive
Key Biscayne, Florida

Cost:
$10 per person includes a copy of Marc Chagall

RSVP: Please register online by November 26. We strongly encourage you to RSVP and pay in advance; however, you may also pay at the door with cash or check.

Directions:
From US Route 1. Turn right onto Rickenbacker Causeway, which becomes Crandon Boulevard. Turn right onto W. Mashta Drive. Enter next roundabout and take the third exit onto Harbor Drive. Parking is available.

Contact:
For more information, contact Stephanie J. Carman, J98, at slcarman@hhlaw.com or 305-459-6654.

About the book:
Novelist and critic Jonathan Wilson focuses on the career of artist Marc Chagall that spanned two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust, and the birth of the State of Israel. He brilliantly demonstrates how Chagall’s life constitutes a grand canvas on which much of twentieth-century Jewish history is depicted. In this portrait, more historical, political, and edgy than conventional wisdom would have us believe, Chagall emerges as the emblematic Jewish artist of the twentieth century.

About the author:
Jonathan Wilson is the Fletcher Professor of Rhetoric and Debate and Professor of English in the Department of English. He has taught literature and creative writing at Tufts for 25 years. He graduated from the University of Essex, England, pursued postgraduate work at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, and earned a Ph.D. at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His writing spans reviews, articles, stories, essays, novels, and a screenplay. His fiction includes A Palestine Affair, a 2004 finalist for the National Jewish Book Award; The Hiding Room; and two collections of stories, Schoom and An Ambulance Is on the Way: Stories of Men in Trouble. He is also the author of two critical works on the fiction of Saul Bellow. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Best American Short Stories, and Ploughshares, among other publications. He received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Fiction in 1994–1995.