FICTION WRITER CHARLES BAXTER TO READ

One of America's most gifted writers, Charles Baxter, is giving a reading at Thomas Great Hall on Thursday, Feb. 17, at 7:30 p.m. The event, part of the Creative Writing Program Reading Series, is free and open to the public.

The recipient of numerous awards, Baxter was named "Michigan Author of the Year" in 1993 and received the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1997. A New York Times book review praised Baxter's stories as "intelligent, original, gracefully written, always moving, frequently funny and — the rarest of compliments — wise."

Baxter is the author of the National Book Award finalist The Feast of Love, which was cited by The Washington Post as "a near-perfect book, as deep as it is broad in its humaneness, comedy and wisdom." His other titles are First Light, Saul and Patsy and Shadow Play. He has also written three collections of poetry and collections of essays. His stories have been selected five times for The Best American Short Stories. Baxter's reading at Bryn Mawr is sponsored by the Whitehill-Linn Fund.

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