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Home/Riverhawk News/Rilla Askew to deliver Larry Adair Lectureship at NSU

Rilla Askew to deliver Larry Adair Lectureship at NSU

Published: 2016-03-07

(Tahlequah, Okla.)-- Rilla Askew, Oklahoma native and award-winning author, does not consider herself a storyteller, but a re-teller. She tells the stories of how we came to be here and what we have wrought, with topics that cover areas such as race, violence, guilt, sin and history. Askew will bring her knowledge and story retelling skills to the Northeastern State University community as the selected 2016 Larry Adair Lectureship speaker.

Askew will present her Larry Adair lecture Race in Oklahoma: From Indian Territory to Tulsa Race Riot through Today onMonday, April 4, 2016 in the Webb Auditorium at2 p.m.

Askew has won many awards for her writings including the 2009 Arts and Letters Award, the Prize Stories 1993: the O. Henry Award, the Oklahoma Book Award (twice), the Western Heritage Award (twice), the American Book Award, the Myers Book Award, the WILLA Award, and the Violet Crown Award. Her writings include essays and short fiction such as The Killing Blanket, that have appeared in a variety of journals, as well as novels including Kind of Kin, Harpsong, Fire in Beulah, The Mercy Sear, and Strange Business.

Askew was the 2004 fellow at Civiella Ranieri in Umbertide, Italy and she received the 2011 Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book.

Peggy Glenn, director of development and executive director of the NSU Foundation, said that the NSU Foundation likes to make the Larry Adair Lecture Series interesting to NSU students and our community.

We look for lecturers with topics that are enriching and thought-provoking, more so than breaking news blurbs that appear on social media, Glenn said.

Friends and family of former Oklahoma Speaker of the House, the Honorable Larry Adair, and the NSU Foundation established the Larry Adair Lectureship Series in 2004 to create an annual forum to engage students in politics, government and public policy.

A book signing will follow the lecture in the Webb Auditorium lobby. This event is free and open to the public.

For more information, call 918-458.2143 or visitnsualumni.com.