“My forte is story, and a peculiarly meticulous (fearful, yes) desire to weave historical fact into history. Make history come alive and as exciting as the past is to me.”
– Anya SetonHistorical Society members: Free; non-members: $10
For more information and reservations to the Zoom lecture: https://greenwichhistory.org/anya-seton-a-writers-life-with-author-lucinda-mackethan/
Lucinda MacKethan is one of the nation’s foremost scholars in the literature of the American South. She is the author or editor of six books, including Daughters of Time: Creating Women’s Voice in Southern Story and the co-edited Companion to Southern Literature, which was named a “best reference work” by the American Library Association. She has served as chair of the North Carolina Humanities Council, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. She retired in 2008 after 37 years as director of the creative writing program and Alumni Distinguished Professor of English at North Carolina State University