Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Verlyn Klinkenborg, a writer and former editorial board member of The New York Times, has been praised for his NYT editorial series "The Rural Life," a collection of meditations on rural life and his farm in upstate New York. He teaches at Yale College and his most recent book, Several Short Sentences About Writing offers thoughtful and practical wisdom on the art and craft of writing. "The Writer at Work"(12:00 p.m. program)