A Visit with Jamie Ford, Author of SAC's 2011-2012 Book of the Year

When: Thursday, May 3

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Where: Phillips Hall Theatre

 

Jamie Ford’s lyrical debut novel Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet was published in January 2009 and was met with much critical acclaim. Since then it has been translated into 23 languages and has won numerous awards. It has also been optioned for a major motion picture.

 

Jamie Ford is the great grandson of Nevada mining pioneer Min Chung, who emigrated from Kaiping, China, to San Francisco in 1865, where he adopted the western name “Ford,” thus confusing countless generations. An award-winning short-story writer, Ford is an alumnus of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and a survivor of Orson Card’s Literary Boot Camp. Having grown up near Seattle’s Chinatown, he now lives in Montana. Visit him at www.jamieford.com, where he can be found blogging about his next book, among other things.