Reading time: 2 minutes

Editor’s note: In case you missed this event, view the HEC-TV / Maryville Talks Books interview with Sam Weller, along with other featured authors.

Sam Weller
Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview

Tuesday, Nov. 10, 7 p.m.
* Tuesday, Nov. 10, 11:50 a.m.
Maryville University Auditorium

Lecture, Q&A, And Book Signing
(Books available for purchase courtesy of Left Bank Books)
Free and open to the public

Sam Weller is the authorized biographer of Ray Bradbury. His book The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury (William Morrow) was a Los Angeles Times bestseller and winner of the 2005 Society of Midland Authors Award for Best Biography. The companion book, Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews, was published by Melville House/Stop Smiling Books in 2010. With Mort Castle, Weller co-edited the short fiction anthology Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury (William Morrow Paperbacks), winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology. His fourth Bradbury book, Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview was published by Melville House in 2014.

Weller is the former midwest correspondent for Publishers Weekly. His essays have appeared in the Paris Review, on the National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” program, Slate magazine, Huffington Post and many others. His short fiction has appeared in numerous books, literary journals and magazines. Weller is a frequent lecturer on the life and legacy of Ray Bradbury. He has given over 300 talks around the world. Weller is the associate chair of the Department of Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago.

* Bradbury’s classic, Fahrenheit 451, is the Maryville Reads book selection for 2015-2016. Events and curriculum planned throughout the year will engage the Maryville community in discussion on themes found in the book. Weller’s first campus appearance, at 11:50 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 10, is presented in conjunction with the Maryville Reads program.

Thank you to our media sponsors: HEC-TV Higher Education Channel, Left Bank Books and St. Louis Public Radio