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30 movies featured at Newark Film Festival, Sept. 4-11

D.C.-area Blue Hens gather Sept. 24 at the Old Ebbitt Grill

Baltimore-area Hens invited to meet Ravens QB Joe Flacco

New Graduate Student Convocation set Wednesday

Center for Disabilities Studies' Artfest set Sept. 6

New Student Convocation to kick off fall semester Tuesday

Latino students networking program meets Tuesday

Fall Student Activities Night set Monday

SNL alumni Kevin Nealon, Jim Breuer to perform at Parents Weekend Sept. 26

Soledad O'Brien to keynote Latino Heritage event Sept. 18

UD Library Associates exhibition now on view

Childhood cancer symposium registrations due Sept. 5

UD choral ensembles announce auditions

Child care provider training courses slated

Late bloomers focus of Sept. 6 UDBG plant sale

Chicago Blue Hens invited to Aug. 30 Donna Summer concert

All fans invited to Aug. 30 UD vs. Maryland tailgate, game

'U.S. Space Vehicles' exhibit on display at library

Families of all students will reunite on campus Sept. 26-28

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Author of "The Madam" on campus Sept. 16

2:15 p.m., Sept. 12, 2003--Readers who have anticipated Julianna Baggott’s new novel, “The Madam,” will have double the reason to celebrate when the Newark-based author visits the campus this month.

Scheduled to appear at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 16, at the University Bookstore in the Perkins Student Center, Baggott will read passages from her work, field questions from the audience and sign copies of her new book.

Billed as a departure from her two previous coming-of-age novels “Girl Talk” and “The Miss America Family,” “The Madam” draws on Baggott’s family history and chronicles the life of her grandmother, who was raised in a southern brothel.

With this foray into historical fiction Baggott is breaking from her tradition of catering to readers in their 20s and early 30s, and says she hopes to engage a larger audience and entice new fans.

Her appearance at UD is the first stop on a tour that also includes Boston, New York, Raleigh, N.C., and Washington, D.C.

“The Madam” will be available for purchase for $24 at the University Bookstore beginning Sept. 16. Readers who want autographed copies should attend Baggott’s 7 p.m. reading and signing. For more information, call 831-2637.

Article by Becca Hutchinson

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