Holocaust Author Patrick Hicks to talk at MSUM on March 20
Wednesday, March 20 | 6 p.m. | Center for Business Room 109
Author Patrick Hicks will present a talk at MSU Moorhead on Wednesday, March 20, at 6 p.m. in the university’s Center for Business Room 109. Hicks will discuss the process of researching and writing about the only all-female concentration camp, Ravensbrück. Across the Lake: A Novel of the Holocaust and Ravensbrück is set in Nazi Germany’s only all-female concentration camp. “With a keen eye toward historical accuracy, this is an unflinching portrayal of how prisoners supported each other while holding onto their humanity. This is also a story of the female guards—the Aufseherin—who were every bit as vicious as the SS in Buchenwald, Dachau, and Auschwitz.”
Hicks is the author of over 10 books, including The Collector of Names, Adoptable, and This London—he also wrote the critically and popularly acclaimed novel, The Commandant of Lubizec. His second book about the Holocaust, In the Shadow of Dora, was a finalist in the ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Writing Competition—this is for novels that hold exceptional promise to be made into a movie. His latest novel, Across the Lake, takes place in the only all-female concentration camp in the Third Reich.
The talk, free and open to the public, is sponsored by MSUM’s English and History, Languages & Humanities Departments and the College of the Arts and Humanities.