THE LEARNING CURVE Spring 2012
Art History, Archaeology, Astronomy, History, Literature, Philosophy, Music

Arizona Centennial: 100 Years of Arizona Authors

In 1912, Arizona became the 48th state and in the same year Zane Grey achieved great critical and popular acclaim with his novel Riders Of The Purple Sage. Through its one hundred years of statehood, Arizona has contributed significantly to our nations’ literary heritage. Join us for this fascinating survey of the great writers of the Grand Canyon State.

Week 1: An Overview of many writers who have lived in or written about Arizona. We will briefly discuss major authors such as Upton Sinclair, John Wesley Powell, Wallace Stegner, Erskine Caldwell, Ruth Suckhow, Sara Teasdale, Thornton Wilder, Willa Cather, and J. B. Priestley.  We will continue our initial survey by discussing major contemporary authors such as Barbara Kingsolver, N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, J. A. Jance and Ofelia Zepeda.
Week 2: Zane Grey’s Riders of the Purple Sage (1912 Novel)
Week 3: Everett Reuss’s On Desert Trails with Everett Reuss (1940 autobiography – letters and poetry)
Week 4 Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitude (1968 autobiographical essays)
Week 5: Lucy Tapahonso’s A Radiant Curve (2008 poetry and short stories)

Tucson Session:
When: Wednesdays, Mar 21 – Apr 18, 9:30-11:30am
Where: The Hampton Inn, 5950 N. Oracle Road
Cost: $120 (5 sessions, includes reading packet)

Oro Valley Session:
When: Fridays, Mar 23 – Apr 20,  9:30-11:30am
Where: Resurrection Lutheran Church, 11575 N. 1st Ave.
Cost: $120 (5 sessions, includes reading packet)

Instructor: William A. Fry, Ph.D., a founding member of the Learning Curve faculty, taught literature and writing at a Maryland college for more than thirty years. He served as Chair of the Literature Department and developed a series of literary travel-study tours, both domestic and international.  This award-winning instructor and scholar was named Outstanding Professor for the State of Maryland in 1987, Professor of the Year in 1990 and recently received the 2010 Juliana Yoder Friend of the Humanities Award from the Arizona Humanities Council.

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