Fact & Fiction Downtown and On Campus, Missoula, MT

As part of the University of Montana's Creative Writing Fall Series 2009, Award-winning author Robert Boswell will give a craft talk on the art of fiction writing Friday, Nov. 13,  1 - 2 p.m. at the North Underground Lecture Hall, University of Montana. Robert Boswell will also read from his recent work and sign books Friday, Nov. 13,   7 p.m. at the Dell Brown Room, Turner Hall of the University of Montana.   More on Robert Boswell. . . Robert Boswell is the author of eleven books, including The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards, a 2009 story collection with Graywolf Press. His novels include Century's Son, American Owned Love, Mystery Ride, The Geography of Desire, and Crooked Hearts. His other story collections are Living to Be 100 and Dancing in the Movies. Boswell has two nonfiction books: The Half-Known World, a book on the craft of writing, and What Men Call Treasure: The Search for Gold at Victorio Peak, a book about a real-life treasure hunt in New Mexico (co-written with David Schweidel). His cyberpunk novel Virtual Death (published under the pseudonym Shale Aaron) was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. His play Tongues won the John Gassner Prize. He has received two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Iowa School of Letters Award for Fiction, the PEN West Award for Fiction, and the Evil Companions Award. He shares the Cullen Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Houston with his wife, Antonya Nelson. He can be found online at www.robertboswell.com