Hollins University Professor of English Marilyn Moriarty will deliver the keynote address at the 战俘/失踪人员意识日仪式 on Saturday, September 22, at 11 a.m. at the 国家诺曼底登陆纪念日 in Bedford, Virginia. 这个特别的活动是免费入场的。

According to the ceremony organizers, “The objective of POW/MIA Awareness Day is to ensure America remembers its responsibility to stand behind those who serve our 赌球在线 and do everything possible to account for those who do not return.”

Moriarty’s talk, “Andreé: A Name on the Prisoners’ List,” draws from the ongoing research she’s conducting for a memoir, an early draft of which was short-listed for the 2018年福克纳-智慧叙事非虚构图书奖. Her study has focused on her mother’s experience with the French underground during World War II.

莫里亚特里说，她研究的动力来自一张老照片。 “A 1945 photograph addressed to my father, ‘With love, Liliane,’ put a false name to my mother Andreé’s face. Decades later, that name became the key to unraveling her wartime activities.” With the assistance of newly-found French cousins, she discovered that even though her mother did not wear a uniform, “she was arrested by the Gestapo, spent six months in solitary confinement, was tried by the Wehrmacht, and served two years of a four-year sentence before the war ended.”

回忆录项目产生了一些衍生作品。 An essay, “Swerves,” won the 2014 Faulkner-Wisdom Gold Medal and was reprinted in the 2016 anthology, 边界与交叉点：书写祖国. Another essay, “You Are Where You Eat,” appears in text and audio on 脏勺子. The essay will also be published on the France-Amerique website in early October.

Moriarty adds that invitation to speak at the 战俘/失踪人员意识日仪式 came through a Hollins connection: April Cheek-Messier ’94, M.A.T. ’02, who is president of the 国家诺曼底登陆纪念日 Foundation.