" La fille, l'estampe et la pirogue "
“The gril, the prints and the dugout canoe”
The evening of April 14 is an invitation with double meaning: the Université Populaire de Boston invites you to listen to an informal interview with
As a child, Margaret Desjardins lived a year in a cliffside cave dwelling in Greece, four months in a dugout canoe on the Sepik River in New Guinea, and spent a year in Kyoto in an all-Japanese school. Her parents, both classical philosophy professors, spent sabbaticals writing, teaching, and experiencing how customs, art, and ritual reflect life and society in other cultures. She has written and produced for CBS News, Time-Warner, Public Television, and HBO, where she won two NCTV ACE Awards. She has also written, designed, and produced award-winning theatrical arena shows, CD-ROMs, and Internet products. She has been published in the Christian Science Monitor, Reading Divas, and writes monthly for the Yale Alumni Magazine. She has a BA from Yale and an MFA in writing from Bennington.
Margaret currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her daughter, Alexandra, and their two gnomes, Greta and Vladimir.