Marymount University is pleased to welcome Literary Director of the Library of Congress and author, Marie Arana, as part of our ongoing McLaughlin Lecture Series

 

Marie Arana will be discussing her book, Latinoland: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority

Join the discussion on Wednesday, January 29, 2025 from 6PM - 7PM in the Reinsch Library Auditorium followed by a reception from 7PM - 8PM in the Barry Gallery

 

About the Author

Marie Arana is a Peruvian-American author and inaugural Literary Director of the Library of Congress. Some of her most recent positions have been Director of the National Book Festival, Chair of the John W. Kluge Center’s Cultures of the Countries of the South, and Writer at Large for The Washington Post. She received the 2020 literary award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the 2024 Americas Leadership Award from Inter-American Dialogue, and has written introductions for numerous works on Latin America, Hispanic identity, and biculturalism.

Her most recent book, Latinoland, is an exceptional, all-encompassing overview of the American Latino population, drawn from hundreds of interviews and prodigious research that emphasizes the diversity and little-known history of our largest and fastest-growing minority. She is also the author of Bolívar: American Liberator, which won the 2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her sweeping history of Latin America, Silver, Sword, and Stone, was named Best Nonfiction Book of 2019 by the American Library Association, and was shortlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence. American Chica, her memoir, was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award, and she has also written two novels set in South America—Cellophane and Lima Nights.

 https://www.simonspeakers.com/author/arana-marie/