Beegel Keynote Speaker for Hemingway Exhibit Sept. 3

"Hemingway's Personal Farewell to Arms" will be the subject of a presentation by scholar Susan F. Beegel on Thursday, Sept. 3 at 6:30 p.m. on the sixth floor of Illinois State University's Milner Library.  Beegel's presentation is in conjunction with the traveling display "Picturing Hemingway: A Writer in his Time," currently on display at Milner Library.  The presentation and the exhibit are both free and open to the public.

Beegel holds a Ph.D in literature from Yale University and is the editor of The Hemingway Review, a scholarly journal on the work and the life of Ernest Hemingway, published by the University of Idaho and the Ernest Hemingway Foundation.  She is an adjunct associate professor of English at the University of Idaho and has written extensively on American literature and history.  She served as a consultant for the National Endowment for the Arts "Big Read" series on A Farewell to Arms as well as the PBS documentary "Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea."

Beegel's presentation is sponsored by the Alice and Fannie Fell Trust Fund.