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1/29/01

SLU FACULTY MEMBER HEMLEY PART OF WRITERS SERIES

CANTON -- Author Robin Hemley, Alfred C. Viebranz Visiting Writer 
and visiting professor of creative writing at St. Lawrence University, 
will speak and read from recent works on Tuesday, February 6, at 8 p.m. 
in the Common Room of Sykes Residence Hall, part of the University's 
Writers Series. The event is open to the public, free of charge.
	Hemley is the author of five books, including two story collections, 
All You Can Eat and The Big Ear; a novel, The Last Studebaker; a popular 
book on writing form, Turning Life Into Fiction and a memoir, Nola. He is 
the winner of the Nelson Algren Award for Fiction from the Chicago Tribune, 
the Independent Publishers' Book Award and two Pushcart Prizes, among 
other accolades. 
	Currently, Hemley is working on a book on a purported anthropological 
hoax in the Philippines. He is a professor of English and creative writing 
in the M.F.A. program at Western Washington University.
	For more information, contact the English department at 315-229-5961.

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