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Ann Hood
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Max Watman
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Rick Moody
Pen Parentis is excited to welcome three acclaimed authors for a night of lively conversation about parenting, writing, and the passions that feed their spirits: Ann Hood, author of the novel The Obituary Writer and editor of the anthology Knitting Yarns, will discuss her love of knitting; novelist Rick Moody, author of On Celestial Music, will talk about his music writing and making, and journalist Max Watman, author of the forthcoming Harvest, will share his love for good food.
Ann Hood is the author of The Obituary Writer and bestsellers such as The Knitting Circle, The Red Thread, and Comfort: A Journey Through Grief, a New York Times Editor’s Choice and named one of the top ten nonfiction books of 2008 by Entertainment Weekly. She’s received a Best American Spiritual Writing Award, a Best American Food Writing Award, a Best American Travel Writing Award, the Paul Bowles Prize for Short Fiction, and two Pushcart Prizes. Her essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times, Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, The Washington Post, Mademoiselle, Redbook, Bon Appetit, and National Geographic Traveler, with regular columns in Self, Glamour, Parenting. She became an avid knitter in 2002 to help get through the grief of losing her daughter, Grace, to a virulent form of strep. Through knitting, Hood was able to pick up her craft again and share her painful journey with the world. She was born in the mill town of West Warwick, Rhode Island, and now lives in Providence with her husband. (photo by Joyce Ravid)
Rick Moody is the author of five novels, including THE ICE STORM which was made into a successful movie, three collections of stories, a memoir, and, most recently a volume of essays entitled On Celestial Music. Since 2009 he has written on music at The Rumpus. He teaches at New York University and Yale. (photo by Thatcher Keats)
Max Watman. Max’s most recent book is Harvest: Field Notes From a Far Flung Pursuit of Real Food (W.W. Norton & Co., 2014). He is the author of Chasing the White Dog: an amateur outlaw’s Adventures in Moonshine (Simon and Schuster, 2010), and of Race Day: A Spot on the Rail with Max Watman (Ivan R. Dee, 2005). He has worked as a cook, a farmer, a guitar player, a silversmith, a tutor, a greenskeeper, a warehouseman, and a journalist. He has written for the New York Times, the New York Times Book Review, Forbes FYI, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune Small Business, Gourmet, and Parnassus. He was the horse racing correspondent for the New York Sun, and wrote frequently on books, music, food, and drink for their pages. In 2008, he was awarded a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Max was raised on the banks of the Shenandoah River, in the Massanutten Mountains of Virginia, and lives near the banks of the Hudson River, in the Highlands, with his wife and son.
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