For Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com
Klancy Clark deNevers and Scott Abbott at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday December 12th, 7:00—9:00 P.M.
WritersKlancy Clark de Nevers and Scott Abbot will read from their work December 12th atthe Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art ReadingSeries.
Klancy Clark deNevers is the author of the new memoir, Lessons in Printing and
The Colonel and the Pacifist: Karl Bendetsen, Perry Saitoand the Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II (Universityof Utah Press, April 2004).
is aprinter’s daughter who grew up proofreading, doing bindery work and numberingballots in her father’s business, Quick Print Co. in Aberdeen, Washington. Therush to get the Grays Harbor Post out every Friday night gavestructure to her family’s week. During World War II four of her uncles were in thearmed forces and by observing how closely her family followed the progress ofthe war, she gained an enduring interest in the history of that era. Shegraduated from Weatherwax High School (where she had been editor of TheOcean Breeze) in 1951.
In 1970 she earned a Master’sDegree in Mathematics from the University of Utah. After a varied career intechnical and managerial positions that allowed her to use her mathematical andcomputing skills, she retired to focus on writing. With Lucy Hart of Seattle,she edited Cohassett Beach Chronicles: World War II in the Pacific Northwest byKathy Hogan, a book of Hogan’s columns from the wartime pages of the GraysHarbor Post. Her poem “Curator” won first place in the City Weekly literarycompetition in September 2000. She served as treasurer for City Art, a grassroots literary organization that presents readings each week in the Salt LakeCity Public Library, and is active on the board of Writers@Work, which presentsa nationally known writing conference held at the Alta Lodge in the Wasatch Mountains nearSalt Lake City, Utah.
Her latest book is The Colonel and the Pacifist: KarlBendetsen, Perry Saito and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans during WorldWar II (University of Utah Press, April 2004).
Scott Abbott isthe author of Immortal for Quite Some Time from the Universtiy of UtahPress. "This is not a memoir,” hewrites. “Rather, this is a fraternal meditation on the question 'Are wefriends, my brother?’ The story is uncertain, the characters are in flux, thevoices are plural, the photographs are as troubled as the prose. This is not amemoir.”
Thus Scott Abbott introduces the reader to his exploration of the life of hisbrother John, a man who died of AIDS in 1991 at the age of forty. Writing abouthis brother, he finds he is writing about himself and about the warm-hearted,educated, and homophobic LDS family that forged the core of his identity.
Winner of the book manuscript prize in creative nonfiction in the Utah ArtsCouncil’s Original Writing Competition, Scott Abbott is professor ofhumanities, philosophy, and integrated studies at Utah Valley University.
Most featured readings are followed by an open reading. CityArt is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst,the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund.
Joel Long
