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11/5/07

SLU WRITERS SERIES WELCOMES ALICE ELLIOTT DARK

CANTON - Alice Elliott Dark will speak and read from recent work in an appearance at St. Lawrence University on Monday, November 12, at 8 p.m. in the Common Room of Sykes Residence Hall. The event, part of the University's Writers Series, is open to the public, free of charge.

Dark is the author of the novel Think of England and two short-story collections, In the Gloaming and Naked to the Waist. The title story in In the Gloaming, first published in The New Yorker, was made into a film for HBO, starring Glenn Close.

Honors for Dark include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and inclusion of her works in The Best American Short Stories and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. She is a visiting professor in the MFA program in creative writing at Rutgers-Newark.

For more information, contact the English department at 315-229-5125.

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