Fall 2007
The Honors First Year Reading Committee has chosen Michael Patrick MacDonald's book "Easter Rising", a memoir of roots and rebellion, for the 2007 Honors Welcome Week First Year Reading Project.
Michael Patrick MacDonald is the author of national bestseller "All Souls: A Family Story From Southie" (Ballantine, October 2000). He is the recipient of the American Book Award, New England Literary Lights Award (2000), and The Myers Outstanding Book Award administered by the Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America. He is currently writing the screenplay of All Souls for director Ron Shelton. MacDonald was also awarded an Anne Cox Chambers Fellowship at the The MacDowell Colony, a Bellagio Center Fellowship through the Rockefeller Foundation, residencies at Blue Mountain Center and Djerassi Artist Residency Program. Currently he lives in Brooklyn.
