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Conroy Visitor Christopher Buckley

January 13th, 2009

Lisa Laughy – Archives Assistant

Today St. Paul’s School welcomes Christopher Buckley, second Conroy Visitor of the academic year.   Ohrstrom library staff have put together a display in the Baker Reading Room – be sure to stop by and check out our selection of Christopher Buckley’s books.  For a full list of his published titles see this Google Books page.

Mr. Buckley will be speaking at 11:00 AM today in Memorial Hall, and undoubtedly, this will be an interesting and humorous presentation.

Below is the author bio for Buckley from the Random House website:

Christopher Buckley is a novelist and editor of Forbes FYI magazine. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and two children and dog, Duck. In 1998, he was inducted into the Légion d’honneur by the president of the Republic of France for “extraordinary contributions to French culture,” despite the fact that his French is barely sufficient to order a meal in a restaurant. He has been an adviser to every president since William Howard Taft, a remarkable achievement, since he was born in 1952. His next book, a refutation of the theories of the physicist Stephen Hawking, will be published this fall by Princeton University Press.

The New Yorker has a essay written by Mr. Buckley available to read online HERE.  Called College Essay, it provides an introduction to his humorous writing style on a topic that will surely resonate with many at SPS.

You can also see Mr. Buckley being interviewed CNN back in October about the controversy generated by choosing to vote for Obama in the November election:


Enjoy this opportunity to hear this celebrated writer talk about his work and his life.

Image courtesy of Eugene under this Creative Common license.

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Conroy Visitor James McBride

October 6th, 2008

Ohrstrom Library joins St. Paul’s School in welcoming writer and musician James McBride as this school year’s first Conroy Visitor.  Mr. McBride will be speaking Tuesday in Memorial Hall from 11:00 AM to 12:00PM about his book The Color of Water.  Students, Faculty and Staff have all had the opportunity to read this fascinating memoir of McBride’s childhood, and the story of how he discovered the complex history of his mother’s life.  Here is a quote from James McBride’s website about the book:

“He slept on mattresses, played in blues bands, taught ESL to Polish refugees, and played weddings on Long Island. While struggling through self-described “unsettled angst” he came to realize that the key to his search lay behind the story of the most interesting person he’d ever known in his life — and the person he loved the most — his own mother.”

Take some time to get to know a little bit about McBride before his visit by touring his flashtastic website:  www.jamesmcbride.com.  You can see a film clip from Spike Lee’s movie Miracle at St. Anna based on McBride’s book (he also wrote the screenplay), read a short bio, and listen to clips from his new music CD The Process.

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