USM to Host Book Signing by Novelist Jessica Shattuck
July 24, 2009
The University of Southern Maine will be hosting a book signing Thursday, August 20 at 5 p.m. in the USM Portland Bookstore for novelist Jessica Shattuck. Shattuck will make her only Maine appearance at USM to promote her recently released novel “Perfect Life.” USM’s Portland Bookstore is located in the Woodbury Campus Center, Bedford Street, Portland. For more information on Shattuck’s reading please contact Barbara Kelly, bkelly@usm.maine.edu, 780-4072.
Author of “The Hazards of Good Breeding” a New York Times Notable Book and Winship/PEN finalist, Shattuck’s work has also appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, Wired, Mother Jones, and Glamour. A 1994 Harvard graduate, Shattuck received her M.F.A. in writing from Columbia University in 2001. Other awards received by Shattuck are the 1999 Frank O’Connor Short Story Award for “The Wedding Guests,” and the 1994 Harvard College Briggs Fiction Prize. A native of New York, N.Y. Shattuck now resides in Cambridge, Mass.
The University of Southern Maine (USM) offers its 10,000 plus students more than 115 areas of undergraduate and graduate study. USM’s location in southern Maine, a region cited as one of the most liveable in the country, offers a range of educational, cultural and recreational opportunities.
