[Yale-readings] Reminder: Caryl Phillips Reading TODAY

[Nancy Kuhl]

REMINDER: CARYL PHILLIPS READING TODAY, 7 p.m.

A reading by Caryl Phillips, the distinguished novelist, will
take place at the Whitney Humanities Center (Room 208-53 Wall Street) at
Yale University. He is also giving a Master's Tea at Ezra Stiles College,
9 Tower Parkway, at 4 p.m. on Monday, February 9.

Mr. Phillips is the author of seven novels and four books of nonfiction.
His most recent novel, *A Distant Shore*, has been nominated for a
National Book Critics Circle Award. Set in contemporary England, it
concerns an African man and an English woman whose hidden lives, and
worlds, are revealed in their fragile, fateful connection.

Mr. Phillips was born in St. Kitts, was raised in England, and now lives
in New York. His awards include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, and
he is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

His appearance at Yale is being sponsored by the John Christophe
Schlesinger Visiting Writer Fund and by Ezra Stiles College.

Nancy Kuhl
Assistant Curator, The Yale Collection of American Literature
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale University
121 Wall Street
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
Phone: 203.432.2966
Fax: 203.432.4047