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11/3/03

ROBIN HEMLEY PART OF SLU WRITERS SERIES

CANTON – Former St. Lawrence University faculty member Robin Hemley will 
read from his work in an appearance on campus on Thursday, November 13, as 
part of the 2003-2004 Writers Series. Hemley will speak at 8 p.m.in Eben 
Holden; the event is open to the public, free of charge.
      Hemley is the author of six works of fiction and nonfiction: 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. His most recent book, Invented Eden: The 
Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday, is a work of anthropology/investigative 
journalism, about a purported anthropological hoax in the Philippines. 
A professor of creative writing and English in the Ph.D. program at the 
University of Utah, Hemley was on the faculty at St. Lawrence in 2000-2001.
      For more information, contact the English department at 315-229-5125.

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