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Pulitzer Prize Winner To Speak at Marygrove College

Detroit, Michigan—August 28, 2004—Marygrove College is pleased to announce a public reading by Pulitzer Prize winning author Edward P. Jones during the Bauder Contemporary American Authors Lecture on Friday, April 8, 2005, at 8 p.m. Jones is the author of two books: Lost in the City (1992), a collection of short stories that received the PEN/Hemingway Award, and The Known World (2003), the Pulitzer Prize winning novel about a black man, born a slave, who gains his freedom and becomes a slave master himself.

Jones said he turned the character over in his head for almost 10 years before finally starting to write about him. He finished the book in seven months.

The Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series is in its 17th year. It is an annual event that brings a nationally-known author to Marygrove for a public lecture and seminar with students.  Past authors include Pearl Cleage, Edwidge Danticat, Toi Derricotte, Mary Helen Washington, John Edgar Wideman, Octavia E. Butler, Jamaica Kincaid, Rita Dove, Ernest J. Gaines, and Cornelius Eady.

The event is free and open to the public. Marygrove College is located at 8425 W. McNichols Road, Detroit, Michigan. ###