A List 9/17/01 SLU FRIENDS OF LIBRARIES CELEBRATE PROFESSOR'S BOOK CANTON - The Friends of Owen D. Young and Launders Libraries at St. Lawrence University will celebrate the publication of Professor of English J. Kerr Grant's book, A Companion to V., with a reception on Friday, September 28, at 4 p.m. in the Josephine Young Room of Owen D. Young Library. The event, at which Grant will speak about the book, is open to the public, free of charge. The book is a guide to reading the novel V., by Thomas Pynchon, and was published by the University of Georgia Press. Grant is also the author of another guide to a Pynchon novel, A Companion to The Crying of Lot 49. A member of the St. Lawrence faculty since 1977, Grant is a graduate of Cambridge University, with a master's degree from the University of East Anglia and a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.-30- Back To News Releases Back to St. Lawrence Homepage