2010 Tree Room Author Series

A way of engaging with some of the greatest writers and thinkers of today.

Since 2003, the award-winning Tree Room restaurant at the Sundance Resort has been host to an author series of national repute. Featured guests have included Madeleine Albright, Bob Schieffer, Greg Mortenson, Maureen Dowd, E.O. Wilson, Jane Mayer, Naomi Klein, Robert Kennedy, Jr. The series explores a range of topics including politics, health, environment, science, international issues, and current events.

This year’s series features an eclectic array of outstanding authors who will discuss the most timely and compelling issues of the day, as well as the timeless issues of finding meaning in life, relationships, and the human narrative.

October 30

Sundance, Utah

In his most recent title, The Good Soldiers, Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter David Finkel vividly chronicles the extraordinary circumstances of modern combat he experienced first hand between January 2007 and June 2008. Finkel’s account is a day-to-day report of what these soldiers experienced and the harrowing truth of war. It transcends the politics of war to give a truthful and forthright portrayal of the cost war exacts from us. Finkel is currently assigned to the national Washington Post staff as an enterprise reporter and has previously worked for the Post’s foreign staff division.

Doors open at 11:30 a.m., Tree Room Restaurant

For tickets, call the Sundance Resort at 866-734-4428.

Final 2010 Tree Room Author Series program:

December 11: Kathryn Stockett, author of The Help

For more information featured authors, click here.

Tickets are $75 per person. Price includes lecture and discussion, a signed copy of the author’s book and brunch in the award-winning Tree Room restaurant (gratuity included). Price includes tax. Tickets are non-refundable. Advance reservations are required. To purchase tickets, call the Sundance Resort at 866-734-4428.

Listen in on Executive Director Lee Bycel's interview about the 2010 Tree Room Author Series. Play audio

PAST EVENTS

On April 10, author Ishmael Beah discussed his book A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, which tells the compelling story of his childhood in Sierra Leone as a former child soldier. The book was nominated for a Quill Award in the Best Debut Author category, and named by Time magazine as one of the Top 10 Nonfiction Books of the year.

On May 22, author Shelton Johnson discussed his book Gloryland, a novel that confronts America’s history with racism, following a sharecropper’s son from South Carolina to his career as a Buffalo Soldier in the U.S. Cavalry. A broadly talented poet, author, park ranger, and documentarian, Johnson has worked to share previously untold stories of diverse peoples in national parks.

On July 26, award-winning columnist, television analyst, and author Jonathan Alter discussed his highly anticipated new book The Promise: President Obama, Year One. Alter frequently interviews American presidents and other world leaders, regularly breaks news, and has authored more than 50 Newsweek cover stories on topics, including Barack Obama's first magazine cover before he arrived in the U.S. Senate.

On August 14, award-winning novelist Ann Patchett (Bel Canto, The Magician's Assistant) will discuss her latest book Run, a moving narrative that explores issues of religion, race, class, politics, and family.