Max Rosenn Lecture in Law and Humanities: Amor Towles
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time
- Sunday, Mar 15, 2026 2pm
Location
Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts
239 S River St
Details
Amor Towles’s award-winning novels have collectively sold more than eight million copies and have been translated into more than forty languages.
Towles’s newest book, Table for Two (2024), was an immediate bestseller and called “a winner” by the New York Times. Towles’s first novel, Rules of Civility (2011), was a New York Times bestseller and was named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best books of 2011. A Gentleman in Moscow (2016), was named one of the best books of 2016 by numerous outlets, including the Washington Post and NPR.
Debuting at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, his third novel, The Lincoln Highway, was one of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2021, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year, one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2021 and was #1 on Amazon’s list of the Best Books of the Year. It will be made into a movie adapted and directed by Christopher Storer for Warner Brothers.
Dr. David Hicks, director of the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University, will moderate a conversation with Towles in the newly renovated Darling Theatre of the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts. A book signing in the lobby of the Darte Center will follow the main presentation. Books will be available for purchase the day of the event.
