The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program Russell Banks February 16-17, 2004

Russell Banks reading - A digital recording of the February 16, 2004 event where Banks read from his work. See the Writers House calendar entry for more about this event. Russell Banks interview/conversation - A recording of the February 17, 2004 audiocast of the interview and conversation with Russell Banks, moderated by Al Filreis, Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House. photos of Banks' visit - A collection of photographs taken during the two events with Banks. an essay on Banks' visit - by Megan Scanlon, Writers House Fellows Seminar 2004 See the Writers House calendar entry for more about this event.

Russell Banks is the author of thirteen novels, including Affliction, which was short listed for both the PEN/Faulkner Fiction Prize and the Irish International Prize and Continental Drift and Cloudsplitter, which were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 and 1998 respectively. Affliction and The Sweet Hereafter were adapted for feature-length films and Banks was the screenwriter of a film adaptation of Continental Drift. Banks has also contributed poems, stories, and essays to The Boston Globe Magazine, Vanity Fair, The New York Times Book Review, Esquire, and Harper's. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, the Ingram Merrill Award, the St. Lawrence Award for Short Fiction, the O. Henry and Best American Short Story Award, the John Dos Passos Award, and the Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Writers House Fellows Program | Writers House Webcast Archive