Award-winning poet and writer Kathleen Norris, author of The New York Times bestsellers Dakota: A Spiritual Geography; The Cloister Walk; and The Virgin of Bennington, will visit the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum Tuesday, Sept. 21. Her lecture begins at 6:45 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
Norris is well known for her non-fiction works. Her first, Dakota, was inspired by her move to Lemmon, S.D., and was named Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times. Cloister Walk, also a bestseller, followed her experience as an oblate of a Benedictine monastery in Lemmon.
Declared "One of the most eloquent yet earthbound spiritual writers of our time," by The San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle, Norris has been the recipient of grants from the Bush and Guggenheim foundations. She has twice been in residence at the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research at St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minn.