Susan Orlean, a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of several books, is sharing her expertise with students and in a public presentation at California State University, Fresno.
Orlean’s books include a profile of Florida orchid breeder,“The Orchid Thief,” “The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters with Extraordinary People” and “My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who’s Been Everywhere.”
She is working on a biography of Rin Tin Tin, a staple of cinema serials in the 1920s and ’30s, that was revived as a TV series in the 1950s.
Orlean has written for newspapers, New York magazine, Vogue, Rolling Stone, Outside and Esquire, joining the New Yorker staff in 1992.
Her Fresno State schedule includes a question-and-answer session with writing students and the campus community at 3 p.m. Friday, March 19, at the Leon S. and Pete Peters Education center in the Student Recreation Center (just west of the Save Mart Center). She will make a public presentation at 7 p.m. at Peters Center. Parking for the event will be free in Lot V.
Orlean’s evening presentation is presented by the Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing program within the Department of English at Fresno State in association in conjunction with the Fresno Poets Association and the San Joaquin Literary Association.
For more information, call 559.278.2553.
(Copy by University Communications news intern Sadie Thomas)
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