Haverford alumnus Frank
Conroy '58, director of the University of Iowa Writers'
Workshop, is featured in the acclaimed new film Stone
Reader, which will open on Friday, April 25, at Ritz Theatres
in Philadelphia.
Stone Reader is the story of filmmaker
Mark Moskowitz's yearlong search for Dow Mossman, the author
of The Stones of Summer, a novel he bought in 1972 as an 18-year-old
student. Twenty-five years later, Moskowitz picked up the book
and read it through for the first time. After finding no trace
of the author or anyone who could remember him, Moskowitz began
his quest.
Crisscrossing the country, he interviews
Conroy, literary agents, critics, publishers, and Mossman's
classmates from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. This leads to discussions
about the nature of creativity, the power of books, and the
relationship between reader and author.
Stone Reader is currently showing
at selected theaters across the country and will also be included
in Roger Ebert's 5th annual Overlooked
Film Festival, April 23 through April 27 at the University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. On April 22nd, Moskowitz was
interviewed on WHYY's
Radio Times.
Moskowitz, who lives in Chester Springs,
Pa., also made Haverford's "Educating to Lead, Educating
to Serve" campaign video which was unveiled in New York
City in April 2002.
