It has an excellent collection of used titles by its namesake author and other Americans, as well as a good collection of South African writers.
The park also houses a museum devoted to its writer namesake, along with his grave.
He's the perfect namesake for a writers' center.
Ryan's poem for Sebald is titled "He Lit a Fire with Icicles," which is both an incident in the life of St. Sebolt, the writer's namesake, and a description of his technique: "How / cold he had / to get to learn / that ice would / burn.
Inspired by the great, late John McGrath's belief that theatre must be "a good night out", his namesake, director John E McGrath, and writer Alan Harris offer an evening that honours the storytelling tradition and the places where those stories are told – the miners' institutes that provide the social focus for the community.
An emotional McEntire praised the women's performance and spoke glowingly of her award's namesake Axton — a co-writer of "Heartbreak Hotel," among others — who was a close friend.
Dubus's father (and namesake) was a well-known writer, famous among other things for his short story "The Winter Father," about a man recently separated from his family.
The first and last poems in the book pay tribute to his mother (the book's namesake), while the others invoke performers, writers, and scholars, including James Baldwin, Roland Barthes, Cecil Taylor, and Billie Holiday.
On Saturday at 3 30 p.m. Mira Nair, the writer, director and producer ("The Namesake," "The Reluctant Fundamentalist"), will chat with the actress Bryce Dallas Howard ("The Help") at the School of Visual Arts Theater, 333 West 23rd Street, Chelsea.
Before Twitter terraformed the landscape of news distribution, Williams's first smash hit, Blogger, became the branded namesake for an upstart generation of amateur writers to challenge the established players.
