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College to Host Award-Winning Author and Environmentalist

Posted on Thursday, March 25, 2010

Environmentalist and award-winning author Scott Russell Sanders will present "A Conservationist Manifesto: Moving from a Culture of Consumption to a Culture of Caretaking" Wednesday, April 7, at 8 p.m. in Beeghly Theater.

The presentation is free and open to the public and is part of Westminster's Distinguished Speaker Series "Perspectives on the Environment," funded by a grant from the Lewis Foundation and Westminster's Drinko Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Visit www.westminster.edu/acad/drinko for more information about the series.

Sanders has written more than 20 novels, short story collections, and works of personal nonfiction, including A Conservationist Manifesto, his vision of a shift from a culture of consumption to one of caretaking. A Private History of Awe, a coming-of-age memoir, love story, and spiritual testament, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

He has won numerous awards for his writing, including the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature's 2009 Mark Twain Award.

His writing examines the human place in nature, the pursuit of social justice, the relation between culture and geography, and the search for a spiritual path.

Contact Dr. David Swerdlow, Westminster professor of English, at (724) 946-7345 (e-mail dswerdlw@westminster.edu) or Doreen Matune in the Drinko Center at (724) 946-7121 (e-mail matunedm@westminster.edu) for more information.

Scott Russell Sanders