2012 JAMES AND MARY OSWALD
DISTINGUISHED WRITERS SERIES
Department of English - University of South Carolina Aiken
Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
Tuesday, February 28, 8 P.M. Main Stage, Etherredge Center
To commemorate
USCA’s fiftieth anniversary,
the English Department is
happy to welcome back
two writers who were
featured in the series in the
past but who have, since
then, garnered significant
new acclaim.
Steven Naifeh and
Gregory White Smith first
visited the USCA campus
in 1998 to describe their
writing process with a
special focus on their
Pulitzer Prize-winning
biography of Jackson
Pollock.
On Tuesday, February
28, they return to the
Etherredge Center to talk
about and sign copies of
what The New York Times
calls their “magisterial”
new biography Van
Gogh: The Life (Random
House).
Ten years in the
making, the book
provides a “guided tour
through the personal
work of that Dutch
painter, shining a bright
light on the evolution of
his art.”
Van Gogh: The Life
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Dr.
Tom Mack, Department of English, USC Aiken, email: tomm@usca.edu,
471 University Parkway, Aiken, SC 29801.