Converge Lecture: Chloe Benjamin

2755 Janitell Road,Colorado Springs CO 80906

04 February, 2022

Description

Chloe Benjamin is the author of The Immortalists, a New York Times bestseller, and The Anatomy of Dreams. Each year Converge brings the nation's leading authors and poets to speak right here in our city. Our lectures are designed to inspire conversation about the questions you are already asking; questions about beauty, ethics, truth, and how we should live. Lecturers are tasked to speak on the topic of moral beauty. That is: how should we live? and can our way of living be lovely? Chloe Benjamin is the author of The Immortalists, a New York Times bestseller, and The Anatomy of Dreams. A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, LibraryReads favorite, and #1 Indie Next pick, The Immortalists was a named a best book of 2018 by NPR, The Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, and others. The Anatomy of Dreams received the Edna Ferber Fiction Book Award and was long listed for the 2014 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Originally from San Francisco, CA, Chloe is a graduate of Vassar College and the M.F.A. in fiction at the University of Wisconsin. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages. She lives with her husband in Madison, WI. Converge is creating community in Colorado Springs with poetry and prose.