21-22 FA Community Series: Encountering Wildlife

 

Falmouth Academy is pleased to welcome Robert Finch to speak to a live audience on Tuesday, November 2 at 7 PM for a talk, “Encountering Wildlife,” which will be held in person in the Simon Center’s Hermann Theater. 

 

Robert Finch has lived on Cape Cod since 1971 and is regarded as one of America's leading nature writers. He has published seven books of essays and is co-editor of The Norton Book of Nature Writing. His most recent book is A Cape Cod Notebook II, the second collection of his weekly public radio commentaries, that have been broadcast since 2005 on CAI, the Woods Hole NPR affiliate of GBH, and for which he received the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award for Radio Writing in 2005 and 2013. His essays have appeared in numerous magazines and journals and his books have been translated into Japanese and Chinese. For his body of work, he was named as one of the New England Literary Lights for 1999 by the Associates of the Boston Public Library. In 2001 he received the Non-Fiction Award from the New England Booksellers Association.

 

Finch has taught at numerous colleges and writers conferences, including Williams College, Emerson College, Carleton College, Penn State, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. From 2002-2012, Finch was on the nonfiction faculty of the MFA in Writing Program at Spalding University, Louisville, Kentucky.

 

The Falmouth Academy Community Series is sponsored in part by the Woods Hole Foundation and is committed to bringing educational and cultural opportunities to the Cape community. Events in this series are free and open to the public. Proof of vaccination and masks are required to attend. Register for this event online at falmouthacademy.org/community.