January 24, 2025 On Campus
Join us for a fireside chat on the Panama Canal and Histories Beyond Our Borders, followed by a reading and audience Q&A.
Cristina Henríquez is the author of The Great Divide, an epic 2024 novel about the building of the Panama Canal and the unsung people who lived and labored there. Her previous books include The Book of Unknown Americans, The World in Half, and Come Together, Fall Apart. She was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
Her writing has appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Real Simple, The Oxford American, and The American Scholar. A 2020 Fiction judge for the National Book Awards, Henríquez has been a guest on NPR and is a recipient of the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation Award.
This event is made possible thanks to the Abbot Academy Fund, CAMD, Dean of Studies Office, Oliver Wendell Holmes Library, and Department of English.
Cochran ChapelAn evening with renowned author Cristina Henríquez
7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., Cochran ChapelJoin us for a fireside chat on the Panama Canal and Histories Beyond Our Borders, followed by a reading and audience Q&A.
Cristina Henríquez is the author of The Great Divide, an epic 2024 novel about the building of the Panama Canal and the unsung people who lived and labored there. Her previous books include The Book of Unknown Americans, The World in Half, and Come Together, Fall Apart. She was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
Her writing has appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Real Simple, The Oxford American, and The American Scholar. A 2020 Fiction judge for the National Book Awards, Henríquez has been a guest on NPR and is a recipient of the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation Award.
This event is made possible thanks to the Abbot Academy Fund, CAMD, Dean of Studies Office, Oliver Wendell Holmes Library, and Department of English.