History 162A, 001 - Fall 2014
Europe and the World: Wars, Empires, Nations 1648-1914 - David Wetzel
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Anthony Marra has won a Whiting Award, Pushcart Prize, and the Narrative Prize. His first novel, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, won the National Book Critics Circle’s inaugural John Leonard Prize and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction, as well as the inaugural Carla Furstenberg Cohen Fiction Award. Marra’s novel was a National Book Award longlist selection as well as a shortlist selection for the Flaherty-Dunnan first novel prize. In addition, his work has been anthologized in The Best American Non-Required Reading 2012. He received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where he currently teaches as the Jones Lecturer in Fiction. He has lived and studied in Eastern Europe, and now resides in Oakland, CA.
Chancellor Birgeneau, ASUC President Vishali Loomba, bestselling author Annie Barrows, Professor Geoffrey Nunberg, and Cal alums Earll Kingston and Maxine Hong Kingston reflect on the history and heart of The University Library. Presented in Morrison Library.
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