Devoney Looser, author of The Making of Jane Austen, will discuss her book as well as popular culture’s fascination with all things Jane Austen during a free public lecture on Wednesday, Oct. 11, at 5:30 p.m. in the Cowles Library Reading Room. The lecture is presented as part of Drake’s Susan Glaspell Writers and Critics Series.

Looser’s writing on Austen has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, and The Times Literary Supplement. Publishers Weekly recently named The Making of Jane Austen to its “Best Books of Summer 2017” list (nonfiction). She is a professor of English at Arizona State University.

—Yasmina Madden, Department of English