New York City author and screenwriter Doug Magee will be at Bismarck State College on Thursday, February 24, for a reading from his novel "Never Wave Goodbye."
His presentation for the BSC Visiting Writers Series had to be rescheduled from Tuesday because of weather-related travel delays.
The presentation begins at 7:30 p.m. in the BSC Student Union Prairie Room, lower level, and concludes with a book-signing. Magee speaks to English classes Thursday and Friday.
"Never Wave Goodbye," his first novel, follows publication of three children's books and two non-fiction titles - "Slow Coming Dark: Interviews on Death Row," and "What Murder Leaves Behind: The Victim's Family."
In "Never Wave Goodbye," readers see how an innocent rite of passage turns into a nightmare for four couples, exposing their secrets and risking the lives of their children. The children, off to a two-week camp for the first time, leave on a bus. When a second bus arrives to pick them up, no one seems to know anything about the first bus or its driver. Within hours, kidnappers demand $1 million.
Touchstone/Simon & Schuster will publish Magee's second novel, "Never to Return," in 2012.
Besides writing, Magee has spread his talent as a photojournalist, film producer and director, death penalty activist, war protester and amateur musician. He is a graduate of Amherst College and Union Theological Seminary.
His produced screenplays include the HBO film "Somebody Has To Shoot the Picture" starring Roy Scheider, and the Showtime film "Beyond the Call" starring Sissy Spacek and David Strathairn.
Though born and raised in New York State, Magee has ties to North Dakota through his 20-year marriage to Bismarck native, Mary Hedahl. They live in East Harlem and have three sons.
The English program of the Arts & Communications Department sponsors the Visiting Writers Series, funded in part by a grant from the Bismarck State College Foundation.