Dean Bakopoulos
When I was sixteen, my father went to the moon.
-The opening line of Moon, by Dean Bakopoulos
Dean Bakopoulos, winner of both a 2008 Guggenheim and a 2006 National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, is Assistant Professor, Creative Writing, at Iowa State University.
His current projects include an adaptation of his first novel, Please Don’t Come Back from the Moon, for a television series and a nonfiction book entitled The Hangover: Waking Up in An Age of Consequences.
Honored as a Notable Book by the New York Times, Moon is set in Bakopoulos’s hometown of Detroit, Michigan.
Part fantasy, part social history, the book explores the narrator’s growth from childhood to fatherhood, and along the way the narrator reveals the sadness and humor of loss and discovery in the American rust belt.
Bakopoulos is the former director of the Wisconsin Book Festival and the Wisconsin Humanities Council.
Event
Saturday, October 23, at 11:00 a.m. – Reading and Discussion, Eau Claire Room, L. E. Phillips Memorial Public Library
Publications
- My American Unhappiness (Houghton Mifflin, early 2011)
- Please Don’t Come Back from the Moon (Harcourt, 2004)
- “Phonies” (one-act play at Alley Stage, Mineral Point, Wisconsin)
- “Wayside” (one-act play at Alley Stage, Mineral Point, Wisconsin)
