Show Utah Novelist To Give Talk This Thursday The Institute of American Studies of the University of Utah will present Utah-born novelist Virginia Sorensen in a free public lecture I Have Lived will be presented in the Union building East Lounge at p.m. Virginia Eggertsen Sorensen is a gifted novelist whose wise and sensitive books have grown out of first-hand observations of the American scene in a variety She has lived in the west and in the and in the following her own and her husbands' teaching careers in and now Out of her Mormon and western background have come A Little Lower Than the On This The The Evening and the Many and The House Next From the South has come a provocative children's Curious Out of Pennsylvania have come the prize-winning Plan and Miracles on Maple Out of research on a Guggenheim Fellowship in Mexico came The Prosper a story about the Recently she went to Denmark on another Guggenheim Fellowship to get materials for a projected trilogy about Mormon Her informal lecture will describe her response to these varied her different Americas at home and abroad as she has experienced them and thought about them and their Thursday's lecture will be an adventure in |