Join us for the 36th Annual Peple Lecture Featuring Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award Winner & New York Times Bestseller. A literary sensation and a writer of uncommon talent, Sigrid Nunez is the author of many novels, including the National Book Award winner and New York Times bestseller, The Friend. Her writing spans over a wide range of genres and themes, but the constant is the level of familiarity she achieves with her readers through her intimate and confessional tone. With her quiet wit, poignant prose, and sharp powers of observation, Nunez speaks to audiences about her path to becoming a writer and the craft of writing. Sigrid Nunez has been writing for over two decades, publishing many engaging and thoughtful novels and short stories. In this intimate talk, she speaks candidly with the audiences about the various influences on her work, and how it has developed over the course of her career. She also shares her beginnings as a writer, anecdotes about her life, and her thoughts on the writer's role in society.