Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture, “People Love Dead Jews,” featuring award-winning author Dara Horn.

Please join us for the Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture, “People Love Dead Jews,” featuring award-winning author Dara Horn. This lecture is scheduled for March 9 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm at the Merrill College Cultural Center.

Dara Horn is the award-winning author of six books and, most recently, an essay collection, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present. One of Granta magazine’s Best Young American Novelists, she is the recipient of two National Jewish Book Awards, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, the Harold U. Ribalow Award, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize. Her books have been selected as New York Times Notable Books, Booklist’s Best 25 Books of the Decade, and San Francisco Chronicle’s Best Books of the Year.

About Noel Q. King
Noel Q. King was a “founding father” of Merrill College. Born in India and educated in England, he spent 14 years in Africa heading departments of religious studies before being hired to do the same at UC Santa Cruz, where he was a prominent and beloved figure until his death in 2009. The Noel Q. King Memorial Lectures help keep religious studies, and Noel King’s idiosyncratic spirit, alive at UCSC.

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