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Sapphire
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Sunday, October 10, 2010 at 2:00 p.m.
Louis Stokes Wing Auditorium
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Sapphire is a performance poet and writer whose gritty 1996 novel, Push, was made into the award-winning film, "Precious." Push won the Black Caucus of the American Library Association's First Novelist Award as well as the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction, presented by the Book-of-the-Month Club.
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Jonathan Franzen
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Sunday, November 7, 2010 at 2:00 p.m.
Louis Stokes Wing Auditorium
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While he was well-known in literary circles for his early novels and a much-discussed essay in Harper’s on the state of the American novel, it was the 2001 publication of The Corrections that brought Jonathan Franzen wide international recognition for his remarkable work.
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Robert Olmstead
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Sunday, March 20, 2011 at 2:00 p.m.
Louis Stokes Wing Auditorium
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Robert Olmstead lives in Delaware, Ohio, where he is an associate professor of English and director of the creative writing program at Ohio Wesleyan University. He is the author of five novels, a collection of short stories, a memoir, and a book on the craft of writing.
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Anchee Min
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Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 2:00 p.m.
Louis Stokes Wing Auditorium
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Anchee Min’s latest novel, Pearl of China, is a dramatic account of Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck’s 40 years in China. Booklist called the novel “ardently detailed…fresh and penetrating,” and noted its “profound psychological, spiritual and historical insights.”
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