Appalachian Visions to Host an Evening with Chuck Kinder

Beckley, W.Va. (April 10)—Area residents are invited to hear West Virginia native and noted writer Chuck Kinder read from his three novels and discuss his fiction in an event hosted by Mountain State University’s Appalachian Visions Series.  “An Evening with Chuck Kinder” will take place beginning at 7pm on Friday, April 28, at Soldiers Memorial Theatre Arts Centre, 200 South Kanawha Street, Beckley. The event is free and open to the public.

Kinder, a West Virginia native, is the author of novels Snakehunter, Silver Ghost, and Honeymooners: A Cautionary Tale.  Former student and Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon, whose Wonder Boys character Grady Tripp was based on Kinder, has called him “the mighty Sasquatch of American fiction.” Kinder has been awarded Stanford University’s Stegner Fellowship and has taught at the University of California at Davis, the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, and the University of Pittsburgh, where he currently serves as director of the writing program