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SUMMARY:Author Event: Caroline Bicks\, Monsters in the Archives
DESCRIPTION:Caroline Bicks will read from her new book\, Monsters in the Ar
 chives. Books available for sale and signing courtesy of Compass Rose Book
 s. A reception to follow hosted by Stefanie Scheer Young.\n\nAbout Monster
 s in the Archives\nAfter Caroline Bicks was named the University of Maine
 ’s inaugural Stephen E. King Chair in Literature\, she became the first 
 scholar to be granted extended access by King to his private archive\, a t
 reasure trove of manuscripts that document the legendary writer’s creati
 ve process—most of them never before studied or published. The year she 
 spent exploring King’s early drafts and hand-written revisions was guide
 d by one question millions of King’s enthralled and terrified readers (i
 ncluding her) have asked themselves: What makes Stephen King’s writing s
 tick in our heads and haunt us long after we’ve closed the book?\nPart l
 iterary master class\, part biography\, part memoir and investigation into
  our deepest anxieties\, Monsters in the Archives—authorized by Stephen
  King himself and informed by interviews Bicks had with him—is unlike an
 ything ever published about the master of horror. It chronicles what Bicks
  found when she set out to unearth how King crafted some of his scariest\,
  most iconic moments. But it’s also a story about a grown-up English pro
 fessor facing her childhood fears and getting to know the man whose monste
 rs helped unleash them.\nCaroline Bicks is an internationally recognized S
 hakespeare scholar who has published widely on early modern drama\, gender
 \, and the history of science. She studied Renaissance poetry at Harvard U
 niversity as an undergraduate and received her PhD in English Literature f
 rom Stanford University. She was tenured at Boston College in 2008\, the s
 ame year that she began summer teaching at the Bread Loaf School of Englis
 h. In 2017\, she became the inaugural Stephen E. King Chair in Literature
  at the University of Maine.
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