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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b>Edward
P. Jones<br>
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Thursday, April 16, 2009<br>
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7 p.m. Reading from his work<br>
L-C 101, 63 High Street<br>
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4 p.m. Master's Tea<br>
Saybrook College, 90 High Street<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Novelist Edward P. Jones will be reading from his work on
Thursday, April 16, at 7 p.m., Room 101, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High
Street, as a John Christophe Schlesinger Visiting Writer, sponsored by the
department of English and Saybrook College. Master Edward Kamens will preside
at a Master’s tea featuring Mr. Jones at Saybrook College, 90 High Street,
Thursday, April 16, at 4 p.m.<br>
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<b>Edward P. Jones</b> has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the
National Book Critics Circle award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary
Award, and the Lannan Literary Award for his 2003 novel, <i>The Known World</i>.
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<i> </i>His first collection of stories, <i>Lost in the City,</i> won the
PEN/Hemingway Award and was short listed for the National Book Award in 1999.
His most recent collection, <i>All Aunt Hagars Children, </i>was a finalist for
the Pen/Faulkner Award; five of the collected stories have been published in <i>The
New Yorker</i>.<br>
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Jones has been an instructor of fiction writing various universities, including
Princeton, and received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2004. He lives in Washington,
D.C.<br>
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The John Christophe Schlesinger Visiting Writer series was established to
enrich the experience of student writers in Yale College. It is supported by a
gift from Richard and Sheila Schlesinger in honor of their son, who was
dedicated to the pursuit of creative writing. Each year several distinguished
writers come to campus to give a public reading and to confer with student
writers in a variety of settings, formal and informal.<br>
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<p>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>
<a href="mailto:susan.bianconi@yale.edu">susan.bianconi@yale.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>The Yale-Readings Listserv is sponsored by the Yale Collection
of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. To post
announcements about poetry and fiction readings, send the full text of the
announcement, including contact information, to <a
href="http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/yale-readings"><span
style='color:blue'>nancy.kuhl at yale.edu.</span></a> Messages sent directly to
the Yale-Readings list may not be posted. <br>
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For more information about Poetry at the Beinecke Library, visit: <a
href="https://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com"><span style='color:blue'>https://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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