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 Purchase, NY - Pulitzer Prize winning author Frank McCourt will discuss his life and work at a forum at 7 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 2 at The Performing Arts Center, Purchase College.
Tickets to the talk, in The Recital Hall, are $42.50 and $32.50.
McCourt, whose memoir Angela’s Ashes spent 117 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, is the featured guest of the “Conversations on Creativity, Craft and Career” series. Talks are led by Isaiah Sheffer, Artistic Director of Symphony Space and host of the nationally broadcast radio program Selected Shorts.
A son of Irish immigrants, the Brooklyn born McCourt spent most of his childhood living in poverty in Limerick, Ireland. Angela’s Ashes is the story of the McCourt family’s struggle with an alcoholic father and the disease, malnutrition and squalor they endured. Despite the horrors of McCourt's childhood, he tells his story with humor, brilliant description and deep compassion for his family — even the shiftless father who instilled in him a love of language and storytelling.
McCourt’s follow-up memoirs — the 1999 sequel ’Tis: A Memoir and the 2005 Teacher Man (about his life as a maverick New York City schoolteacher) — also made the bestseller lists.
“Conversations on Creativity, Craft and Career” will continue on Mar. 23 with ballet dancer/choreographer Jacques d’Amboise.
For more information, and to buy tickets, contact The Performing Arts Center ticket office (914-251-6200) or log onto The Center’s website at http://www.artscenter.org.
The Center's 31st season is made possible, in part, by the Basic Program Support Grant of the Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government.
Purchase College is located in Westchester County, minutes from the Connecticut border. The college, part of the State University of New York system, is a major institution of public higher education encompassing the liberal arts and sciences, professional training in the performing and visual arts, and continuing education. The college campus is home to The Performing Arts Center and The Neuberger Museum of Art, which strive to present models of excellence for both the college and its surrounding community.
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