 Lone Star College-Montgomery and the Montgomery County Literary Art Council’s Writers in Performance series welcomes novelist and Texas Institute of Letters Book Award winner Elizabeth Crook on Thursday, November 19, at 7 p.m. in the General Academic Center (building G), room 102, at LSC-Montgomery. |
County Literary Art Council’s Writers in Performance series welcomes novelist and Texas Institute of Letters Book Award winner Elizabeth Crook for a reading and discussion session about her works, The event, which is free and open to the public, takes place on Thursday, November 19, at 7 p.m. in the General Academic Center (building G), room 102, at LSC-Montgomery.
Crook is an American genre novelist of
western fiction. She is the author of Monday, Monday, The Night Journal, Promised
Lands and The Raven‘s Bride. Monday, Monday received the Jesse H.
Jones award for best work of fiction and was named by Kirkus Reviews as a best
fiction book of the year. The Night
Journal was awarded a Spur Award from Western Writers of America and a
WILLA Literary Award from Women’s Writing the West.
Crook has written for anthologies and
periodicals, including Texas Monthly
and the Southwestern Historical Quarterly,
and served on the council for the Texas Institute of Letters and the board of
the Texas Book Festival.
Crook was born in Houston, graduated from
Rice University, and currently resides in Austin.
Writers in Performance is a reading program
dedicated to bringing the most distinguished minds and their bright visions to
the citizens of Montgomery County through thought-provoking literature and
cultural diversity. The series’ events are made possible by the partnerships
between Lone Star College-Montgomery, SWIRL literary and arts journal, the
Conroe Commission on Arts & Culture, the Greater Conroe Arts Alliance, and the
Montgomery County Literary Arts Council.
For more information, visit
www.literaryartscouncil.org; or contact Dave Parsons at (936) 524-6537 or david.m.parsons@lonestar.edu.
LSC-Montgomery
is located at 3200 College Park Drive, one-half mile west of Interstate 45,
between Conroe and The Woodlands. For more information about the college, call
(936) 273-7000, or visit www.LoneStar.edu/montgomery.
Lone Star College System has been opening doors to a better community for more than 40 years. Founded in 1973, LSCS remains steadfast in its commitment to student success and credential completion. Today, with 78,000 students in credit classes, and a total enrollment of more than 90,000, Lone Star College System is the largest institution of higher education in the Houston area and one of the fastest-growing community college systems in the nation. Dr. Steve Head is the chancellor of LSCS, which consists of six colleges including LSC-CyFair, LSC-Kingwood, LSC-Montgomery, LSC-North Harris, LSC-Tomball and LSC-University Park, seven centers, LSC-University Center at Montgomery, LSC-University Center at University Park, Lone Star Corporate College, and LSC-Online. To learn more visit LoneStar.edu.