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Southwest Festival of the Written Word: Ron Hamm and Stephen Fox
Friday, September 29, 2017, 02:00pm - 03:00pm |
"Delving into Others' Lives, a Conversation about Writing Biography"
Ron Hamm began writing biography with obituaries (the genre in brief) as a copy boy on his Indiana home town newspaper. Following the Marine Corps, Hamm's United Press/Associated Press career allowed him to write profiles of major news figures. That segued into public relations followed by teaching and finally writing biographies on New Mexicans.
Stephen Fox is a Boston boy who moved west in 2008. He had studied history at Williams College and at Brown University, where he received a PhD in 1971. A freelance historian, he has published seven books on various aspects of American social history. For the biography panel at the Southwest Festival of the Written Word, he'll discuss three of his books that are especially biographical: The Guardian of Boston (1970), John Muir and His Legacy (1981), and Wolf of the Deep (2007). After nine years in Silver City, he still doesn't know what to say when asked Red or Green.
Location 515 College Avenue
Silver City NM 88061
538-3672
Contact www.swwordfiesta.org