2011 Presenters
Carlos Eire
Memoir: Writing a Life 4:15pm Back Bay Events Center- Quincy Suite
Carlos Eire won the National Book Award in Nonfiction for his memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana, about growing up in the midst of the Cuban Revolution. His newest memoir is Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy, which continues the story of his life in the United States after fleeing Cuba at age eleven. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University and is currently the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale, where he has been on the faculty since 1996.
LINKS:
Interview with Eire and excerpt from Learning to Die in Miami on NPR
