Novelist Liam Callanan is author of All Saints and The Cloud Atlas, nominated for the Edgar Allen Poe Award for best first novel. In addition he publishes short fiction and non-fiction in literary journals and newspapers, including Forbes and the New York Times, and contributes to public radio. Mr. Callanan holds degrees from Yale and Georgetown and is currently director of the creative writing program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

He will visit Carthage in the Visiting Writers' Series on Wednesday, 24 October 2007, reading his fiction in the Niemann Theatre at 4pm and discussing writing in Clausen 113 at 5:30pm.

BACKGROUND
Welcome to www.liamcallanan.com
http://www.liamcallanan.com/

NOVELS
Callanan, Liam. All Saints. New York: Delacorte Press, 2007.

-----. The Cloud Atlas. New York: Delacorte Press, 2004.

STORIES AND ARTICLES
"Loving Lucy: A Father Remembers the Daughter Who Broke His Heart," Good Housekeeping, 240, 6 (June 2005), 150-55.

"Taken," failbetter.com, Summer/Fall 2003
http://www.failbetter.com/11/Callanan.php

NEWS AND REVIEWS
EBSCOhost (Academic Search Elite, MasterFILE Premier)
ProQuest fulltext newspapers
Thomson Gale (General OneFile)

OTHER RESOURCES
A Reading by Liam Callanan
Blackbird, 5, 1 (Spring 2006)
http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v5n1/features/callanan_l_063006/callanan_l_text.htm

Merritt, Byron. "An Interview with Liam Callanan, Teacher, Novelist, Book Reviewer, and Father" (26 May 2004)
http://www.fwomp.com/int-liamC.htm

To access some of the cited materials from off campus, current Carthage students, staff, and faculty need to install a proxy on their computer browser and login to the gray Hedberg form with their name and Carthage ID number. Others are welcome to read them in the Hedberg Library.