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Award wining author, Alan Lightman, to speak at Winthrop

Shatesha Scales

Issue date: 3/12/08 Section: Arts
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Who: International best-selling author Dr. Alan Lightman, author of seven non-fiction science books and five novels.

What: Will be holding a lecture entitled "At the Crossroads of Science and the Arts," that discusses the similarities and differences in the way artist and scientist think.

When: March 26 at 8 p.m.

Where: Johnson Theatre

His background: After teaching physics at Harvard, Lightman paused to write scientific essays and his international best-selling novel Einstein's Dreams. Later he went on to write The Diagnosis, winning the National Book Award.

Interesting fact: He does not use e-mail.
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