2020 St. Louis Literary Award Ceremony Is Thursday, April 15
04/09/2021
Tickets are still available for the 2020 St. Louis Literary Award ceremony in which actor Jon Hamm will interview author Michael Chabon. The virtual event will be held Thursday, April 15.
Chabon is the author of best-selling books including The Mysteries of Pittsburg, Wonder Boys and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.
Chabon is the lead writer for “Star Trek: Picard.” He and his wife, writer Ayelet Waldman, are the writers and executive producers for the Netflix series, “Unbelievable” as well as the Showtime series of “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.”
Other notable awards for Chabon include the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, National Book Critics Circle, Hugo, Nebula, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Pen/Faulkner, and National Jewish Book Award among many others in a career spanning more than 30 years.
Award Ceremony
This year’s award ceremony will be hosted by actor and St. Louis native Jon Hamm.
The event will be held virtually at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 15, and capacity is limited.
Register for the Literary Award Talk
Craft Talk
Chabon will join the SLU community and host Nancy Bell at 1 p.m. Friday, April 16, for a discussion about the craft of writing and reflections on his work. Bell is a producer, director, performer, and writer, with a thirty-year career working at theatres all over the country in all those different capacities, as well as in television and film. She is the director of the Theatre Program at Saint Louis University.
St. Louis Literary Award
The St. Louis Literary Award is presented annually by the Saint Louis University Library Associates and has become one of the top literary prizes in the country. The award honors a writer who deepens our insight into the human condition and expands the scope of our compassion. Some of the most important writers of the 20th and 21st centuries have come to Saint Louis University to accept the honor, including Margaret Atwood, Salmon Rushdie, Eudora Welty, John Updike, Saul Bellow, August Wilson, Stephen Sondheim and Tom Wolfe.