English: Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux, one of the world’s finest travel writers, is also a prolific novelist whose works have been made into several films. Among his best-known works of travel are The Great Railway Bazaar,Sailing Through China, and The Pillars of Hercules; among his notable novels are The Mosquito Coast, Half Moon Street, and Picture Palace, which won the UK’s Whitbread Prize. “A large, lively, outrageous talent, without peer as the merciless obituarist of colonialism,” says Nobel Prizewinner Nadine Gordimer.
 
The University’s Schoenfeldt Writers Series was founded in 1988 by the late Father Art Schoenfeldt, C.S.C., and his sister, University regent Sue Fields; over the years it has brought some of the finest writers in the world to The Bluff to read from their work, meet with students and faculty, and add endless stories to the electricity of an education at the University. Among its guests have been National Book Award winners Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, and Tim Egan, master storytellers Ian Frazier and Terry Tempest Williams, poets William Stafford and Pattiann Rogers, novelists David James Duncan and Ivan Doig, and such uncategorizable brilliances as Ursula Le Guin. The University will honor the memory of Father Schoenfeldt this academic year with the opening of two new residence halls, Fields (named for Sue Fields and her husband Fred) and Schoenfeldt halls, at the north end of campus.
 
Information on the series: John Orr, Brian Doyle