"Trouble: the Backbone of Literature"
Opening Speaker: Thomas Fox Averill, retired WU English teacher, has published several books and is a radio commentator, using the name “William Jennings Bryan Oleander.” He donated a collection of books by Kansas authors to the Maybee Library at Washburn. The opening general session Friday Evening, October 8, starting at 7:00pm will focus on a quote from Eudora Welty, “Trouble, the Backbone of Literature,” and the way that trouble helps construct plot and character together as people move from difficulty to either overcome, or come to live with “troubles.”
Opening Speaker: Thomas Fox Averill, retired WU English teacher, has published several books and is a radio commentator, using the name “William Jennings Bryan Oleander.” He donated a collection of books by Kansas authors to the Maybee Library at Washburn. The opening general session Friday Evening, October 8, starting at 7:00pm will focus on a quote from Eudora Welty, “Trouble, the Backbone of Literature,” and the way that trouble helps construct plot and character together as people move from difficulty to either overcome, or come to live with “troubles.”
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