National Book Award Winner to Give Talk at Holy Cross

Carlos Eire, the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of history and religious studies at Yale University, will give a talk on his memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy, winner of the 2003 National Book Award, on March 16 at 4 p.m. in Dinand Library’s Faculty Room at the College of the Holy Cross. The talk is free and open to the public.

An expert on religious reformations, faith, and spiritualism in modern Europe, Eire is also the author of From Madrid to Purgatory: The Art and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth Century Spain (Cambridge University Press, 1995) and War Against the Idols: The Reformation of Worship From Erasmus to Calvin (Cambridge University Press, 1986) and co-author of Jews, Christians, Muslims: A Comparative Introduction to Monotheistic Religions (Prentice Hall, 1997). He has been a faculty member at Yale since 1996. Waiting for Snow in Havana (Free Press, 2003) recounts Eire’s childhood in 1950s Havana.

The event is sponsored by the Latin American and Latino Studies Concentration.

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