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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite> Allen Wier (pronounced Wire)
will read from his fiction Thursday, February 19th at 8 p.m. in EN
A120. Wier is the author of a collection of stories, <i>Things
About to Disappear</i>(LSU Press and Avon/Bard), and three novels,
<i>Blanco</i> (LSU Press, Avon/Bard, and Harper & Row),<i> Departing
as Air</i> (Simon & Schuster), <i>A Place for Outlaws</i> (Harper
& Row). He's edited an anthology, <i>Walking on Water and other
stories</i> (Univ. of Alabama Press), and co-edited <i>Voicelust</i>, a
collection of essays on style in contemporary fiction (Univ. of Nebraska
Press). In 1997 he received the Chubb LifeAmerica Robert Penn Warren
Award, conferred by the Fellowship of Southern Writers biennially to
"recognize an outstanding young Southern writer of fiction."
Wier is also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a grant from the
National Endowment for the Arts, and a Dobie-Paisano Fellowship from the
University of Texas and the Texas Institute of Letters. His fiction,
essays, and reviews appear in such publications as <i>Southern Review,
Five Points, Georgia Review, Ploughshares, Texas Review,</i> and the
<i>New York Times</i>. He was named Travel Writer of the Year (1994) by
the Alabama Bureau of Travel. Wier recently completed a long historical
novel, CLOUD OF WITNESSES, set in Texas during the Comanche wars, and he
is completing a literary thriller, SKIN FOR SKIN, as well as a volume of
new and selected short stories. In 2001 he was elected to membership in
the Fellowship of Southern Writers and was inducted at the FSW s biennial
meeting in April 2003. He has taught at Longwood College, Carnegie-Mellon
university, Hollins College, the University of Texas, Florida
International University, and the University of Alabama. Born in Texas,
an only child, he grew up in Texas, Louisiana and Mexico--where his
father explored the jungles of Veracruz seeking ferns and flowers to
import for the wholesale flower business in San Antonio. Allen Wier has
received the Distinguished Teaching Chair in the English Department at
the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where he lives with his wife,
Donnie, and their son, Wesley.</blockquote>
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Nancy Kuhl<br>
Assistant Curator, The Yale Collection of American Literature<br>
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library<br>
Yale University<br>
121 Wall Street<br>
P.O. Box 208240<br>
New Haven, CT 06520-8240<br>
Phone: 203.432.2966 <br>
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