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The Melanie Brown Lecturer Series
The Melanie Brown Lecturer is one of the exciting opportunities for aspiring writers to meet established authors, specifically writers of fiction, through Chatham’s MFA in Creative Writing program. The Melanie Brown Lecturer is presented each year through the generosity of The Melanie and Fred R. Brown Endowed Fund.
Melanie Brown was inspired by the MFA program’s emphasis on nurturing creative writers in part through place-based writing. The selection of each year’s Melanie Brown Lecturer is guided by the desire to highlight fiction writers with a strong sense of place in her or his writing. Students will have opportunities to interact with the Melanie Brown Lecturer both in and out of the classroom.
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2010 Melanie Brown Lecturer
Michael Byers Reading
Visit Michael Byers Website
Michael Byers is the author of The Coast of Good Intentions, a book of
stories, and Long for This World, a novel. His first book was a finalist
for the PEN/Hemingway Award, won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American
Academy of Arts and Letters, and garnered a Whiting Writer's Award, among
other citations; Long for This World received the First Novel Award from
Virginia Commonwealth University, won the annual fiction prize from Friends
of American Writers, and was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award.
Both were New York Times Notable Books. His new novel, Percival's Planet,
will appear next year from Henry Holt.
Byers's fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories:
The O. Henry Awards; his nonfiction has appeared in The Wall Street Journal,
The Washington Post, Best American Travel Writing, and elsewhere. A former
Stegner Fellow at Stanford, he teaches creative writing at the University of
Michigan.
Registration and Directions
February 26, 2010
Public Reading & Book Signing
6:00 PM - 7:15 PM
Fee : Free
Location : Welker Room
No directions available
Event Contact Information
Sheryl St. Germain
412-365-1190
sstgermain@chatham.edu
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