Best-selling author Jeff VanderMeer to deliver Harding Lecture

GENESEO — New York Times best-selling novelist Jeff VanderMeer will deliver the 2025 Walter Harding Lecture at SUNY Geneseo.

VanderMeer is the author of “Hummingbird Salamander”; the Borne novels (“Borne,” “The Strange Bird,” and “Dead Astronauts”); and the Southern Reach series (“Annihilation,” “Authority,” “Acceptance,” and “Absolution”), the first volume of which won the Nebula Award and Shirley Jackson Award and was adapted into a movie by Paramount Pictures.