[Libri] reminder: Simon Winchester lecture Thursday

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Dear Colleagues,

Here are further details on the Simon Winchester lecture:

Commonwealth College of the
University of Massachusetts
and the
Hampshire College Center for the Book

are pleased to sponsor a visit by

Simon Winchester, author of
The Professor and the Madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of
the Oxford English Dictionary

2:00 p.m.  opening of exhibit of paintings by William Chester Minor (the
"Madman"), Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts
8:00 p.m.  public lecture, Bowker Auditorium, University of Massachusetts

Simon Winchester studied geology at Oxford and has written for Condé Nast
Traveler, Smithsonian, and National Geographic.  His most recent book is The
Map that Changed the World:  William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
(HarperCollins, 2001).  Mr. Winchester lives in Massachusetts and in the
Western Isles of Scotland.


Further information on the Commonwealth College program with which the
lecture is associated:

http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/archive/2002/093002course.htm

University of Massachusetts campus map:

http://www.umass.edu/umhome/maps/images/map_detail.pdf


We look forward to seeing you.

Jim Wald
(for the Center for the Book)
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