Peter Ferry, authorof Travel Writing,
will attend
our April 12 meeting.
Peter taught in the English Dept.
at Lake Forest
High School
until he retired in 2007.
Since then he's written a novel and learned a lot about the publishing business. He'll have stories to share with us and will answer our questions.
Peter has written textbooks for Rand McNally and travel articles for the Chicago Tribune and the Sun-Times. His short stories have appeared in Story Quarterly, Overtures, the New Review of Literature, and McSweeney's. He has won the Illinois Arts Council Literary Award for Short Fiction. He lives in Evanston.
One of Peter's students was Dave Eggers, author of two of our previous selections: What is the What and Zeitoun.
One of Peter's students was Dave Eggers, author of two of our previous selections: What is the What and Zeitoun.
