alberto manguel
The Teagle Foundation What is a Reader? project & the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research present a lecture by
novelist / essayist / editor
Homage to
Humpty Dumpty or
Can We Make Words
Say What We Want
Them To Say?
thursday
26 january 2012
5:00 pm
humanities 1 rm 210
uc santa cruz
Alberto Manguel was born in
Buenos Aires and grew up in
Tel-Aviv. He currently resides in
France. He is the author of many
non-fiction books, including A History
of Reading, The City of Words, Magic
Land of Toys, Reading Pictures, and The
Library at Night. His novels include News
From a Foreign Country Came, All Men are
Liars, A Return, Stevenson Under the Palm
Trees, and The Overdiscriminating Lover.
info & disability access :
shemek@ucsc.edu
2006 photograph of
Lucy & Alberto
by Craig Stephenson
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www.alberto.manguel.com
What is a Reader? is a multi-campus research project supported by theTeagle Foundation’s Big
Questions in the Disciplines initiative. Established in 2009 by faculty members in English and Literature
departments from Mills College, Stanford University, U C Berkeley, and U C Santa Cruz, it seeks to
understand undergraduate literacy today and its implications for the study of literature at the college level.
Please see : whatisareader.stanford.edu Staff support provided by the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research