ASU-Beebe’s Division of Arts and Humanities will present author Eli Cranor, author of “Ozark Dogs” and “Don’t Know Tough” at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 12 at the Abington Library as part of the Abington Library Series in the 2023-2024 Performing Arts Series.
The presentation is free and open to the public. The Abington Library is located on the ASU-Beebe campus at 204 N. Palm Street.
Cranor, who played quarterback from peewee to professional, later coached high school football. He and his family now live near Russellville, where he writes from the banks of Lake Dardanelle, a reservoir of the Arkansas River.
Over the course of his career, Cranor’s work has won The Greensboro Review’s Robert Watson Literary Prize and was featured in Missouri Review, Oxford American, Ellery Queen, The Strand and others. His critically acclaimed debut novel, “Don’t Know Tough,” won the Peter Lovesey First Crime Novel contest.
Cranor also writes a weekly column, “Where I’m Writing From” for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, and a column, “Shop Talk,” appears monthly at CrimeReads.
Next in the Abington Library Series will be “Arkansas Backstories, Volume One & Two” by Joe David Rice at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 7. For more information about the Performing Arts Series, view the website at: https://www.asub.edu/performing-arts/.
