Visiting Artist Opportunity

For those of you who are local, you may want to take this opportunity to hear Daly Walker, author of Surgeon Stories.

Here's the information:

E.B.& Bertha C. Ball Center presents a Readers & Writers Series Reception featuring DALY WALKER, author of Surgeon Stories, on Friday, August 19, 2011 at 4:30 p.m.

Winchester native Daly Walker is a retired surgeon who practiced medicine for 35 years in Columbus, Indiana. A fellow of the American College of Surgery, he served in Vietnam as a battalion surgeon and received a Bronze Star. Walker studied creative writing at Indiana University, the University of Louisville, and has studied with Sena Jeter Naslund (acclaimed author of Ahab's Wife), founding director of Fleur-de-Lis press, at Spalding University. His short stories have been published in The Atlantic Monthly, The Sewanee Review, The Louisville Review and The Southamption Review.

Books will be available for purchase. There is no charge. Reservations are required. Please call 285-8975 for more information or to make a reservation.