Anne Enright, Irish Fiction Writer-- Reading and McKinney Award Ceremony

Anne Enright, Irish fiction writer, is the author most recently of The Forgotten Waltz (2011), a novel about the sudden dramas of everyday life and the volatile connections between people. Publishers Weekly called the book a “masterful and deeply satisfying novel,” and Booklist praised it for "astonishingly effective storytelling." Enright’s international bestseller The Gathering won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. Cosponsored in conjunction with Rensselaer’s 71st McKinney Writing Contest & Reading