Vanderbilt’s Moore to speak at Union Lyceum event

Writer, critic and essayist Lorrie Moore will speak at Union University March 7.

Moore, the Gertrude Conway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, is the author of six collections of short stories, four novels, a children’s book and a collection of essays and criticism. Her most recent work, “I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home,” is a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.

She has won the O. Henry Award, the Rea Award for the Short Story, and the Berlin Prize, among other honors.

Her address will begin at 7 p.m. in the Carl Grant Events Center, with a book signing and reception to follow. The event, free and open to the public, is sponsored by Union’s Lyceum Committee and Department of English.