Novelist to read from works April 20

Richard Bausch

10:59 a.m., April 8, 2005--Richard Bausch, award-winning novelist and short story writer, will read from a selection of his works at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 20, in 104 Gore Hall, as part of the Marion Neide Green Memorial Reading Series.

Bausch, recently selected to receive the 17th annual PEN/Malamud Award, given in honor of the late Bernard Malamud, is the author of nine critically acclaimed novels and five volumes of short stories.

The talk is free and open to the public.

A retrospective of his award-winning fiction, The Stories of Richard Bausch, was released recently by Harper-Collins. Bausch’s short stories have appeared in Esquire and The New Yorker, as well as in anthologies such as Best American Short Stories Prize, and New Stories from the South.

His awards and honors include the O. Henry Prize, Best American Short Story Prize, Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Award and an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Heritage Professor of Writing at George Mason University, Bausch recently was inducted into the Fellowship of Southern Writers.

Marion Neide Green, AS ’25, MA ’58, served as an organist in several Methodist Churches for 30 years and later as deacon and elder at Red Clay Creek Presbyterian Church. She died on Jan. 27, 2004, at age 99. She was a lifelong reader, and this reading series is dedicated to her memory. The series also is sponsored by the English department. For more information, call (302) 831-2361.

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