It has recently been announced that award-winning poet and author
Jay Parini will receive the
Royden B. Davis Distinguished Author Award from the
Friends of the Weinberg Memorial Library at
University of Scranton on Saturday, September 29th. This is one of several planned events to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the
Weinberg Memorial Library.
Novelist and poet
Jay Parini was born in 1948 in
Pittston, Pennsylvania and raised in
Scranton. His 1990 novel
The Last Station was adapted into a
2009 Oscar nominated film starring
Helen Mirren and
Christopher Plummer.
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