The Paris Tufts Alliance is pleased to host

Jonathan Wilson reading from
Marc Chagall

Date & Time:
Saturday, April 12, 2008
5:00 pm – Registration
5:30 pm – Reading followed by Q&A 6:15 pm – Book signing and reception

Location:
Home of Samir Sabet D'Acre and Florence Pucci, A08P
44 avenue Foch
Interphone SP, 1st Floor
75116 Paris

Cost:
None

RSVP: Please register online by April 9. We strongly encourage you to RSVP in advance.

Contact Information:
For more information about this event and/or the Paris Tufts Alliance, please contact Marie Regnault, J86, at: marieregnault@noos.fr.

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.