Selected Readings from Ron Hansen Novels

Novelist and CCCA Visionary-in-Residence Ron Hansen shares excerpts from his writing at the CCCA Razor's Edge Conference on February 28, 2014. His readings include bits of poetry and short stories with topics ranging from memories of Nebraska to losing the family dog.

Ron Hansen is the Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. Professor in the Arts & Humanities at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California. Hansen is a graduate of the University of Iowa’s Writers Workshop and Stanford University. At Stanford University he held a Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Fellowship. He has also received fellowships from the Michigan Society of Fellows, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Lyndhurst Foundation, and was presented with an award in literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts & Letters. Mr. Hansen has written ten works of fiction, edited two short story collections and written a book of essays on faith and fiction.