Join us at PAMLA 2025 for a Thursday Spotlight with poet, novelist, painter, and professor emeritus Clarence Major, who will present “A Reading from Four Days in Algeria (2025) and Creative Conversation” on Thursday, November 20, from 3:00–4:00 pm in Grand Ballroom B/C.
Major will read from Four Days in Algeria, his most recent poetry collection, and reflect on his art and writing. The author of thirteen novels, seventeen poetry collections, three volumes of short stories, and ten works of nonfiction, Major’s works include Dirty Bird Blues (a Penguin Classic), Such Was the Season (a Literary Guild selection), My Amputations (winner of the Western States Book Award), and Painted Turtle: Woman with Guitar (a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year). His paintings have been exhibited internationally and collected in The Paintings and Drawings of Clarence Major (2019). Winner of a National Book Award Bronze Medal, the PEN–Oakland Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Literature, and many other honors, he was elected to the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in 2021. Major is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Davis, and lives in northern California.
RSVPs requested but not required to attend this exciting Thursday Spotlight; please log into pamla.ballastacademic.com and register via the Registration tab so we can better anticipate attendance numbers.