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<b>Creative Writing Faculty Reading<br><br>
Thursday, March 1, 2007<br>
7 p.m.<br>
Linsly-Chittenden Hall 101 (63 High Street) <br><br>
free and open to the public <br>
sponsored by the Department of English<br>
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Featuring:<br><br>
Amy Bloom<br>
Donald Margulies<br>
Caryl Phillips<br>
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<font size=4>The second in a two-part series of readings by faculty in
creative writing will take place Monday, March 1, 2007 at 7 p.m. in LC
101 (63 Wall Street). It is free and open to the public.<br>
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Amy Bloom is the author of a novel, <i>Love Invents Us</i>, and two
collections of stories: <i>Come to Me</i>, nominated for a National Book
Award, and <i>A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You</i>, nominated for
the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her stories have appeared in
<i>Best American Short Stories</i>, <i>Prize Stories: The O. Henry
Awards</i>, and numerous anthologies here and abroad. She has written for
<i>The New Yorker</i>, the <i>New York Times Magazine</i>, the
<i>Atlantic Monthly</i>, <i>Vogue</i>, <i>Slate</i>, and <i>Salon</i>,
among many other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award. Her
first book of nonfiction, <i>Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing
Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude</i>, is an exploration of the
varieties of gender.<br>
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Donald Margulies received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for <i>Dinner
with Friends</i>. His many plays include <i>Brooklyn Boy</i>,
<i>Sight Unseen</i>, <i>Collected Stories</i>, <i>God of
Vengeance</i>, <i>Two Days</i>, <i>The Model Apartment</i>, <i>The Loman
Family Picnic</i>, <i>What’s Wrong With This Picture?, Broken Sleep:
Three Plays</i>, <i>July 7, 1994</i>, <i>Found A Peanut</i>, <i>Resting
Place</i>, <i>Gifted Children</i>, <i>Zimmer</i> and <i>Luna Park</i>.
His plays have been performed at major theaters across the United States
and around the world. He has received grants from the National Endowment
for the Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts, and the John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In 2005 he was honored with an Award in
Literature given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is an
alumnus of New Dramatists and serves on the council of the Dramatists
Guild of America.<br>
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Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts, brought up in Leeds, and now lives
in New York City. He is the author of two anthologies, has written for
television, radio, theater and film and is the author of three works of
nonfiction and eight novels. <i>Crossing the River</i> was shortlisted
for the 1993 Booker Prize. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of
Literature, an honorary fellow of The Queens College, Oxford, and among
his literary prizes and awards has been honored with the Martin Luther
King Memorial Prize, a grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation, and Britain’s oldest literary award, the James Tait Black
Memorial Prize. His novel <i>A Distant Shore</i> won the 2004
Commonwealth Writers Prize, and <i>Dancing in the Dark</i> won the 2006
Pen/Beyond the Margins Prize. His new book <i>Foreigners: Three English
Lives</i> will be published in both the United States and Britain this
fall.<br>
<br>
</font>Susan Bianconi<br>
Associate Editor<br>
The Yale Review<br>
P. O. Box 208243<br>
New Haven, CT 06520-8243<br>
203/432-0499 <br>
203/432-0510, fax<br>
susan.bianconi@yale.edu </blockquote>
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