William Short
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October 14, 2010Novelist Olympia Vernon will speak at Nicholls State University Thursday, Oct. 28 as the Fletcher Lecture Series celebrates its 27th anniversary.
Vernon’s lecture will begin at 6 p.m. in the Talbot Theater auditorium. It will be preceded by a pre-lecture reception in the building’s lobby at 5:30 p.m. and a question-and-answer session at 10:30 a.m. in the Bollinger Memorial Student Union’s Le Bijou Theater.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Vernon is the author of “Eden,” “Logic,” and “A Killing in This Town.”
The Fletcher Lecture Series, named after former Nicholls department head Marie Fletcher, brings scholars and writers to Nicholls each year. Part presenters include Robert Penn Warren, Ernest Gaines, Maxine Hong Kingston, Henry Louis Gates, Sam Pickering and Marilynne Robinson.
