Midland College to host book reading, art exhibit

Dr. Leslie Williams will be reading from When Anything Goes: Being Christian in a Post-Christian World, her latest non-fiction book, on Monday, August 1, 12:00 noon in the McCormick Gallery, Allison Fine Arts Building, on the Midland College main campus.

Dr. Williams is an English professor, national speaker and author of novels, non-fiction and poetry. Her latest book, The Judas Conspiracy is a thriller, which won Honorable Mention for the national Eric Hoffer Award. Other works include the novel A Deadly Thing They Say and the non-fiction works When Women Build the Kingdom, Night Wrestling and Seduction of Lesser Gods. She has a biography of Thomas Cranmer, Henry VIII’s Archbishop of Canterbury, to be published soon.

She served as Division Chair of Fine Arts and Communications at MC from 1997-1999 and was a member of the English faculty from 1999-2001. Her art collection “Anatomy of Hope” is currently on exhibit in Midland College’s McCormick Gallery located in the Allison Fine Arts Building. Visitors of Dr. Williams’ reading on August 1 will also be able to enjoy her beautiful original artwork.

Williams currently lives in Kerrville, Texas, with her husband Stockton, near her two children and five grandchildren.

The public is invited to the readings and may bring a lunch. Admission is free, and iced tea and water will be provided.

For more information about this event at McCormick Gallery, please contact Rebecca Bell, MC dean of Community Relations, (432) 685-4556, rbell@midland.edu .