University Communications
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322

Release date: Sept. 22, 1999
Contact: Deb Hammacher, Assistant Director, 404-727-0644, or dhammac@emory.edu

CHARLES BAXTER TO GIVE READING, BOOK SIGNING AT EMORY SEPT. 30

WHO: Fiction writer and poet Charles Baxter

WHAT: Emory University Creative Writing Program Reading Series

WHEN: 8:15 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 30

WHERE: Joseph Jones Room, Woodruff Library, 540 Asbury Circle, Emory

COST: Free and open to the public. For information, call 404-727-4683. For a campus map, go on-line to www.emory.edu/MAP.

Emory University's Creative Writing Program will present a reading and book signing by author Charles Baxter as part of its annual reading series. The critically acclaimed author has become a reader and reviewer favorite through his tales of the unexpected in day-to-day life, of the fleeting moments that shape a life, and the moral dilemmas that face us all.

Baxter's stories have been described as "intelligent, original, gracefully written, always moving, frequently funny and-the rarest of compliments-wise" by The New York Times Book Review. He is the author of the short story collections "Harmony of the World," "Through the Safety Net" and "A Relative Stranger"; the novels "Shadow Play" and "First Light"; and a book of poetry, "Imaginary Paintings." His most recent publications are a book of essays on fiction, "Burning Down the House," and "Believers," a novella and short story collection.

His work has been widely anthologized and he has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fund, among others. In 1997 he received a literature award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is an adjunct professor of English language and literature at the University of Michigan where he directs the M.F.A. program in creative writing.

Baxter's reading will be followed by a book signing and reception. For more information, call the Creative Writing Program at 404-727-4683.

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