[Yale-readings] Reading announcement - Marijane Meaker

[Nancy Kuhl]

>Please join us at Beinecke Library at 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 23 for a talk 
>and reading by Marijane Meaker.
>
>Marijane Meaker began her writing career in the 1950s under the name Vin 
>Packer and became famous for the lesbian-themed novel Spring Fire, which 
>sold over 1 and 1/2 million copies. She wrote additional "paperback 
>originals" as Ann Aldrich. In the 1970s, she began a hugely successful 
>career as M.E. Kerr, writing for young adults, bringing the world Dinky 
>Hocker Shoots Smack!, and Night Kites among many others--a body of work 
>for which she was presented the American Library Association's Margaret A. 
>Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1993. In 2003,  Cleis Press 
>published the first title in years under her real name: Highsmith:  A 
>Romance of the 1950's, which details her relationship with Patricia 
>Highsmith, author of The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Train.

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
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