Conversation with 2026 Annual McKinney Contest Guest Speaker Hisham Matar, the 2017 Pulitzer Prize winner for his memoir, The Return, about his search for his missing father, a political dissident in Libya.

His new novel is My Friends (paperback, 2025), a National Book Award finalist.

• Free and open to the public.
• Books will be available for sale.
• A signing will follow the conversation.

Presented by: The NYS Writers Institute

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