Author Erik Larson to speak at UD Library Associates Annual Dinner

8:47 a.m., March 8, 2016--The 2016 Annual Dinner of the University of Delaware Library Associates will be held on Wednesday, April 6, at Arsht Hall in Wilmington and the featured speaker will be Erik Larson, an American journalist and a master of narrative non-fiction author. 

Larson’s vividly written bestselling books have won several awards and been published worldwide. He is the author of several works, most recently Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, which is about the 1915 sinking of the ocean liner Lusitania.

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University of Delaware graduates planning to attend Alumni Weekend are encouraged to register for the annual Blue Hen 5K walk and run, which will be held Sunday morning, June 5.

June 6-9: Food and culture series

The 20th annual June Lecture Series at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UD in Wilmington will be held June 6-9. Titled 'June a la Carte,' this year's program focuses on great political documents, feminism, world politics and a Newark cuisine sampler.

• June 6-9: Food and culture series
• Through June 30: 'Saving White Clay Creek'
• July 22: WWE Heatwave Tour
• Through Sept. 16: Women of color in academia

The Washington Post stated, "This enthralling and richly detailed account demonstrates that there was far more going on beneath the surface than is generally known...Larson's account [of the Lusitania's sinking] is the most lucid and suspenseful yet written, and he finds genuine emotional power in the unlucky confluences of forces, 'large and achingly small,' that set the stage for the ship's agonizing final moments."

The evening of April 6 will begin with a hospitality hour starting at 6 p.m., followed by the dinner and program at 7 p.m. 

Dinner prices are $130 per person for members of the University of Delaware Library Associates and $175 per person for non members/guests, which includes a first-year membership in the organization. A table of eight persons who sit together may be reserved for $1,500. 

Interested persons may contact the Office of the Vice Provost for Libraries by sending an email message to UDLA@udel.edu or by calling 302-831-2231 to request a printed invitation along with the provision of name and first-class mailing address. An e-version of the invitation is available at this website. The event is open to the public with a paid dinner reservation. 

Larson has agreed to sign copies of his book during the hospitality hour and after the dinner program. The Barnes and Noble University of Delaware Bookstore will have copies of his book available for purchase.

Photo by Benjamin Benschneider