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17th Annual Robert Penn Warren April 05, 2004 Dr. Madden is the Donald and Velvia Crumbley Professor of Creative Writing at Louisiana State University. His presentation is titled "Jack Burden's Picture Gallery" and is a performance piece in which he combines passages from Warren's "All the King's Men' as picture descriptions of key characters. Dr. Madden earned a master's degree at San Francisco State University and attended Yale Drama School on a John Golden Fellowship. At LSU, he has been a writer-in-residence, director of the Creative Writing Program and founding director of the United States Civil War Center. A Rockefeller Grant, recommended by Warren and Saul Bellow, enabled him to work in Venice and Yugoslavia on his third novel, "Bijou." His best-known novel, "The Suicide's Wife," was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and was made into a CBS movie. The presentation begins at 2 p.m. in room 103 of the Garrett Conference Center and will be followed by a reception and book signing in Cherry Hall. The events are free and open to the public. Warren, a Kentucky native, won three Pulitzer Prizes for literature and poetry. He was named the first poet laureate in the United States in 1986. For more information, contact Mary Ellen Miller at (270) 745-5721. More WKU news is available on the World Wide Web at www.wku.edu. If you'd like to receive WKU news via e-mail, send a message to WKUNews@wku.edu.
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