Quiet Dell - Jayne Anne Phillips

Kansas City author and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell sits down with one of the country’s most accomplished novelists, Jayne Anne Phillips, for a public conversation about her mesmerizing 2013 book based on the real-life murder of a lonely widow and her 14-, 12-, and 9-year-old children. Stephen King hailed it as “the novel of the year.” Phillips, a professor of English and director of the MFA program at Rutgers University-Newark, grew up near the scene of the 1931 crime in Quiet Dell, West Virginia. She took an In Cold Blood approach to the story, using real names and details of the case and filling in the characters’ thoughts, perceptions, and relationships. Co-sponsored by the Writers at Work Roundtable and the UMKC English Department.
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This event is co-sponsored by: Writers at Work Roundtable, UMKC English Department
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Quiet Dell - Jayne Anne Phillips

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