Campus Event – ​​Lindsay J. Cropper Memorial Writers Series: Laila Lalami – USD News Center University of San Diego

The first reading in our Cropper series in 2024-2025 is the Lindsay J. Cropper Memorial Writers Series with novelist and essayist Laila Lalami on Thursday, September 26, 2024, at 6 p.m. in the Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice Theater. A dessert reception and book signing will follow the reading.

Beforehand, Lalami will deliver the annual Barrie Cropper Memorial Lecture on the art of creative writing at 12:30 p.m. in the Learning Commons, Room 107. Both events are free and open to the public.

Laila Lalami is the author of five books, including The Moor’s Reportwhich won the American Book Award, the Arab-American Book Award, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. It was longlisted for the Booker Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Her most recent novel, The other Americanswas a national bestseller, won the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. Her essays have appeared in Los Angeles TimesThe Washington Post, The nation, Harper’sThe Guardianand that New York TimesShe has received scholarships from the British Council, the Fulbright Program, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. She lives in Los Angeles.

All are welcome. For more information, contact the incoming director of the Cropper Center for Creative Writing, Prof. Brad Melekian, at [email protected].

Sponsored by the Cropper Center for Creative Writing and the Department of English, University of San Diego.

The Lindsay J. Cropper Center for Creative Writing was established at USD in 2004 with a generous gift from Barrie and Dorothy Cropper in memory of their daughter, Lindsay J. Cropper, a USD graduate who majored in English and was an aspiring writer and who tragically passed away in 2000. The purpose of the center is to promote the appreciation and practice of creative writing at the University of San Diego by hosting an annual Writers Series, sponsoring a literary journal, encouraging the development of writing courses, and awarding creative writing prizes.

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