Karen Olsson is Coming to Unbound!

One of the panels we’re most looking forward to this year is our discussion on writing about mathematics. Joining Eugenia Cheng will be Karen Olsson, whose third book, The Weil Conjectures, brilliantly combines memoir, biography, and a meditation on what it means to lead a creative life. Described by Patti Smith as “wonderful,” the book has received rapturous praise from all quarters and we are very excited to welcome Karen to Columbia to talk about it!

photo credit: Matt Valentine

Karen Olsson is the author of the novels Waterloo, which was a runner-up for the 2006 PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction, and All the Houses. She has written for The New York Times Magazine, Slate, Bookforum, and Texas Monthly, among other publications, and she is also a former editor of The Texas Observer. She graduated from Harvard University with a degree in mathematics and lives in Austin, Texas, with her family.