“American Writers” Exhibit Opens at the Dolnoslaska Public Library in Wroclaw

November 14, 2007

Susan Parker-Burns, Press and Culture Officer, speaks at the opening, on the left Library Director Andrzej Tyws

The photographic exhibition “American Writers” opened at the Dolnoslaska Public Library in Wroclaw on November 14.  The following day, as a promotion of the exhibit, Public Affairs Officer Susan Parker-Burns gave a lecture on multicultural literature to high school students who visited American Corner that functions as a partnership of the library and the U.S. Consulate in Krakow.  The lecture presented some of the literary figures whose photos are included in the exhibit.  The “American Writers” exhibit features 43 photographs of major American novelists, poets and playwrights by the prominent American photographer Nancy Crampton, who has been a photographer of literary artists for thirty-five years.  Many of the subjects of the photographs are very well-known, such as Truman Capote, Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, Toni Morrison and John Cheever.  Each photograph is paired with a text from the writer including his or her thoughts on the craft or a discussion of the social importance of writing. 

The exhibit in Dolnoslaska Public Library will be open until the end of November.

The website of American Corner http://www.amcorners.pl/wroclaw/