Tracy Daugherty, professor emeritus of English and creative writing at Oregon State University, will be featured in an upcoming lecture at Linfield College.

Daugherty will present the 2016 Ericksen Lecture on “Public and Private Lives: A Biographer’s Story” on Tuesday, May 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the Austin Reading Room in Nicholson Library at Linfield College.

Daugherty is a four-time winner of the Oregon Book Award. He has written four novels, six short story collections, biographies of Donald Barthelme, Joseph Heller and Joan Didion, and two books of essays, including the forthcoming “Let Us Build Us a City,” about the practice and uses of literary imagination. His work has been recognized with fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

His research and teaching interests explored the intersections of public and private lives, art, architecture, music and science, as well as urban life and American deserts, real and imagined.

Daugherty received his bachelor and master’s degrees from Southern Methodist University and his Ph.D. from the University of Houston.

The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Ken and Donna Ericksen Endowed English Department Fund. Ericksen, professor emeritus of English at Linfield, created the endowment in memory of his wife, Donna, a Linfield alumna, who taught reading, writing and English in the Hillsboro School District for 25 years. The endowment allows the English Department to bring literary scholars to campus for several days to work with faculty and students.