Double Exposure: Re-Seeing the West with Timothy O’Sullivan, America’s Most Mysterious War Photographer
Robert Sullivan, author and Short-Term Whitney J. Oates Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Department of English
September 26, 2023 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm · 010 East Pyne
Department of English; Humanities Council
Author Robert Sullivan speaks on his forthcoming book, Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with Timothy O’Sullivan, America’s Most Mysterious War Photographer (FSG, 2024).
Robert Sullivan is the author of numerous books, including Rats, The Meadowlands, A Whale Hunt, The Thoreau You Don’t Know and My American Revolution. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, A Public Space and Vogue. He is the recipient of a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship and teaches creative writing at Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English. In April, FSG will publish his latest book, Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with Timothy O’Sullivan, America’s Most Mysterious War Photographer. He will be a Short-Term Whitney J. Oates Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Department of English in spring 2024.
Photo credit: O’Sullivan, Timothy H, photographer. Black Cañon Colorado River, from camp 8, looking above / T.H. O’Sullivan, phot. 1871. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/item/99404085/)
