Celebrated author Brady Udall will be in the Valley to teach a fiction workshop for The Center. While here, he will read from his newest work. Udall is best known for The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint (2001),which has been favorably compared with the work of John Irving and Charles Dickens (although Brady says his biggest influence is Mark Twain: “There has never been a funnier writer, and yet very few have possessed a darker view of human existence.”). He has also published a book of short stories, Letting Loose the Hounds, and has been featured on This American Life.