What: The Trinity College Department of Religion welcomes James Morrow,
author of the Godhead trilogy about the death of God, the preservation of his body as a theme park, and his trial before and international court on charges of crimes against humanity.  Morrow will be here for a lecture and book signing for The Philosopher’s Apprentice.  The talk is open to any Trinity student, faculty, or staff member.

When: May 1, 2008 ~ 4:00pm

Where: McCook 225 on the Trinity College campus

Background:

James Morrow, who has been compared to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, and John Updike, was lauded as "an original — stylistically ingenious, savagely funny, always unpre-dictable” writer by the Philadelphia Enquirer.  His most recent works include The Last Witchfinder (2006), which follows the adventures of the daughter of an English witchfinder through the voice of Newton’s Principia Mathematica who sets up the conflict between superstition and rationalism.  The book, according to the Washington Post, “pulls off so many dazzling feats of literary magic that in a different century he [Morrow] would have been burned at the stake.”

Morrow’s latest book, The Philosopher’s Apprentice, tells the story of a philosopher hired to provide a moral conscience to someone conceived through a genetic experiment who initially has no inkling of morality. Jim will be doing a book-signing for The Philosopher’s Apprentice at the Trinity Bookstore earlier in the afternoon, beginning at 3:00. 

This event is open to the Trinity community.  For more information please contact Marjorie Harter at Marjorie.Harter@trincoll.edu