Free tickets for Amy Tan lecture at Purdue now available
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Free tickets are now available for author Amy Tan's lecture at 8 p.m. Oct. 19 at Purdue University's Elliott Hall of Music.
Tickets can be picked up on campus at the Hicks Undergraduate Library, the Humanities, Social Science and Education Library, and the Siegesmund Engineering Library. Tickets are available off campus at the West Lafayette and Tippecanoe County public libraries, the Tippecanoe Arts Federation and Barnes & Noble Booksellers in Lafayette.
"An Evening with Amy Tan" is the third installment in the Purdue University Libraries' Distinguished Lecture Series. After the lecture Tan will sign books, including her most recent novel "Saving Fish from Drowning," which was published in 2005. Books will be available for sale on site.
Tan's international best-selling novel "The Joy Luck Club" was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. The book, which explores the relationships between Chinese women and their Chinese-American daughters, was the longest running hardcover title on the New York Times bestseller list in 1989, the year it was published. It has since been translated into 36 languages, including Chinese.
Tan also wrote "The Kitchen God's Wife," "The Hundred Secret Senses," "The Bonesetter's Daughter" and two children's books.
Tan's talk is sponsored by Purdue Libraries with major funding from the estate of Anna M. Akeley and additional support from Women of Purdue, the Delta Gamma Foundation Lectureship in Values and Ethics, and the Office of the Provost. On-campus contributors include the Purdue Alumni Association, College of Liberal Arts and Department of English. The book sale event is sponsored by Barnes & Noble.
Previous speakers in the series include NASA historian and Neil Armstrong biographer James R. Hansen and Patricia Albjerg Graham, a Purdue graduate who is now a Harvard professor of the history of education.
Writer: Jim Schenke, (765) 494-6262, jschenke@purdue.edu
Sources: Rachel Schurz, libraries marketing associate, (765) 496-3294, rschurz@purdue.edu
James L. Mullins, dean of libraries, (765) 494-2900, jmullins@purdue.edu
Judy Schumaker, libraries advancement director, (765) 494-7987
Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; purduenews@purdue.edu
Note to Journalists: Journalists are invited to attend the event, but Amy Tan will not be available for interviews. Flash photography is not permitted during the talk. For more information, contact Jim Schenke, Purdue News Service, (765) 494-6262, jschenke@purdue.edu
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