The Mary Tefft White Cultural Center Lecture Series and the Rogers Free Library presents, novelist, Steve Yarbrough, Tuesday, October 4, 2022, at 7pm at the Rogers Free Library in Bristol, Rhode Island.
Steve Yarbrough is the author of twelve books, most recently the novel Stay Gone Days (2022). Writes the New York Times, "Yarbrough, who has been likened to Faulkner for his attention to Mississippi (and whose novel Prisoners of War was a finalist for the 2005 PEN/Faulkner Award) nimbly illustrates what the past can tell us about the present." The recipient of numerous awards, and formerly on faculty at Emerson College, Yarbrough splits his time between Boston and Krakow.
Authorlink: Interview: Stay Gone Days Tells A Story Of Family And Place
Boston Globe: Mississippi boy Steve Yarbrough came to souther lit in college
The Brooklyn Rail: Steve Yarbrough's Stay Gone Days
Clarion Ledger: Q&A with author Steve Yarbrough
Southern Review of Books: "Writing Close to the Bone": an Interview with Steve Yarbrough