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Award-winning author Daniel Quinn will present "The Year 3000 Begins Tonight at Midnight" at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 16, in the Saint Louis Room of Busch Memorial Center, 20 N. Grand Blvd.
Quinn, who studied at Saint Louis University, is perhaps best known for the work Ishmael. The novel--a study of ecology, life, freedom and the human condition--won the $500,000 Turner Tomorrow Fellowship in 1991 for producing "creative and positive solutions to global problems." Other recent works include Providence (1995), The Story of B (1996) and My Ishmael: A Sequel (1997).
The speech is part of the Great Issues Speaker Series and is sponsored by the Student Government Association, the Honors Program, the College of Public Service, the College of Arts and Sciences, Saint Louis University Libraries and the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice.
Considered futuristic and visionary by readers, Quinn's works are used in classrooms from kindergarten to college.
In conjunction with the speech, Saint Louis University's Pius XII Memorial Library will feature a display of Quinn's works along with biographical information about the author.
Quinn's most recent book, Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure, challenges the argument that civilization represents a final, unsurpassable state of human development that must never be abandoned under any circumstance. He examines other peoples--the Maya, the Olmec, the people of Teotihuacan--who have built civilizations and then walked away from them.
While in St. Louis, Quinn also will be available at a book-signing at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 15 at Left Bank Books, 399 N. Euclid Ave.
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