April's Lunch & Learn

Lunch & Learn

Co-sponsored by Friends of the Folsom Library

and the Rensselaer Retirees Forum

 

“Granville Hicks: 

The Man, His Books, and the Controversy”

Presenter:  Bob Mayo

Rensselaer Library Director Bob Mayo will give a talk on novelist, literary critic and biographer Granville Hicks (1901-1982), who served as an Assistant Professor of English at Rensselaer from 1929 until his controversial dismissal in 1935. He continued to live in nearby Grafton until the late 1970’s.

The talk is complemented by a Folsom Library exhibit on Hicks. For more information on the exhibit, see http://www.lib.rpi.edu/documents/admin/hicks.pdf

Friday, April 13 
12:00 to 1:00 pm

Folsom Library Fischbach Room

Free! Everyone is welcome!

    Bring your lunch or purchase one at the Library Cafe.

Dessert will be provided.




Just a few of the many books written by Hicks and one written about him.




Adrienne Birchler
Coordinator
Friends of the Folsom Library