Writer Pat Carr To Visit WKU
For Public Reading, Workshop
September 11, 2003
Bowling Green, Ky. - Author Pat Carr will read from her novel "If We Must Die" at 7 p.m. Sept. 24 at Western Kentucky University's Cherry Hall, room 125.
The novel, whose core incident is the Tulsa race riot of 1921, was a finalist in the 2003 PEN book awards. Copies will be available for purchase and for Carr to autograph after her public reading.
Her visit, sponsored by the Department of English's Creative Writing Committee, includes a workshop for writing students that afternoon.
Carr, a former English faculty member at Western, has published 12 books of criticism, archaeology and fiction, including "The Women in the Mirror," winner of the Iowa Fiction Award.
She also has written more than 100 short stories that have appeared in a variety of publications, including The Southern Review, Yale Review and Best American Short Stories. Her prizes include a Library of Congress Marc IV, the Texas Institute of Letters Short Story Award, an Al Smith Writer's Fellowship, a Ledig-Rowohit Writing Fellowship in Switzerland and the A.C. Greene/Texas Council of the Arts Literacy Award.
Carr received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Rice University and her doctorate at Tulane University.
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