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March 8, 2006
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AUTHOR AND WOLF WATCHER BRIAN CONNOLLY TO SPEAK AT WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY ON APRIL 2
Brian Connolly, an avid wolf watcher and author of the young adult novel Wolf Journal, will discuss how observing wolves in their natural habitat inspired his writing during a lecture at William Paterson University in Wayne on Sunday, April 2, 2006 at 2 p.m. in the David and Lorraine Cheng Library Auditorium. Admission is free. The program is sponsored by the Friends of the David and Lorraine Cheng library; a reception will follow the lecture.
Connolly spends three months each summer and one month during the winter helping field biologists spot wolves and report wolf behavior in Yellowstone National Park. It was his observations of the various wolf packs there that inspired his novel, which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Awards/Leslie Bradshaw Award for Young Readers.
Connolly, who taught creative writing in New York State public schools for 28 years, later moved to Bend, Oregon, where he now lives and writes full time. He is the author of Bradley’s Christmas Adventure, a children’s book, and his short stories and poems have appeared in many literary magazines from Maine to Washington.
A native of the Allegheny Mountains region of Pennsylvania, the setting for Wolf Journal, Connolly is a graduate of Edinboro University in Pennsylvania, where he earned a bachelor of science degree in education. As a graduating senior, he received the first Finnegan Award for Poetry. He has pursued graduate studies at the State University of New York at Oswego and Cortland, Elmira College and University of Massachusetts at North Adams.
For additional information, call the David and Lorraine Cheng Library at William Paterson University at 973-720-2113.
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