Distinguished Author Patricia Hampl to Speak at Bicentennial Academic Symposium

Tell Me True: Memoir as Spiritual History

Patricia Hampl, Regents Professor at University of Minnesota and an acclaimed memoirist and essayist, will speak at Mount St. Mary’s University on April 3 at 7:00 in the Knott Auditorium. Hampl has received many awards for her work, including a MacArthur Fellowship. She first won recognition for A Romantic Education, her memoir about her Czech heritage, awarded a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship in 1981. This book and subsequent works established her as an influential figure in the rise of autobiographical writing in the past 25 years. I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory, was a finalist in the National Book Critics Circle Awards in the category of General Nonfiction in 2000. Her most recent work,“The Florist’s Daughter,” has received golden reviews from the New York Times Book Review and Washington Post Book World.