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3/24/03

AUTHOR JANE HAMILTON TO SPEAK AT ST. LAWRENCE

CANTON - Writer Jane Hamilton, winner of the 1989 PEN/Hemingway 
Foundation Award for best first novel for The Book of Ruth, 
will speak and read from her recent work in an appearance 
at St. Lawrence University on Thursday, April 3, at 8:15 p.m. 
in Eben Holden. The event, part of the St. Lawrence Writers 
Series, is open to the public, free of charge.
	The Book of Ruth was chosen as a selection for Oprah 
Winfrey's book club in 1996, and another of her books, A 
Map of the World, was on the list in 1999. The Short Story 
of a Prince, which won the Heartland Prize for Fiction, was 
short-listed for Britain's Orange Prize. Disobedience, her 
fourth novel, was published in 2000 (Anchor Books) to great 
critical and popular acclaim. She is a graduate of Carleton 
College in Minnesota.
	For additional information, contact the English 
department at 315-229-5125.

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