Monday, November 14, 2016 at 1:30 p.m.
On Monday November 14 at 1:30 p.m. Professor Schvey will speak about his new book The Poison Tree: A Memoir at the 38th Annual St. Louis Jewish Book Festival during the "Home-Grown Talent: Missouri's Own event. His work has recently been highlighted in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Judith Newmark under "From chaos to calm: Author Henry Schvey tells a St. Louis love story" as well as in the article by Susan Fadem in the St. Louis Jewish Light titled, "WU professor exposes hard childhood in memoir."
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The Poison Tree: A Memoir, is a study of Schvey’s relationship with his father, an illumination of the secret life of a man who was powerful, highly respected, and greatly feared, and a journey—both sad and tragicomic—that ultimately leads to forgiveness. But growing up in his father’s looming shadow, Schvey wondered if he was doomed to repeat the past, doomed to make the same mistakes his father made. Henry Schvey is Professor of Drama and Comparative Literature at Washington University, where he has taught since 1987. - See more at: http://jccstl.com/arts-ideas/st-louis-jewish-book-festival/festival-even...
