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9/27/99

HISTORICAL FICTION AUTHOR TO LECTURE AT ST. LAWRENCE

CANTON -- Writer Thomas Mallon, the author of Henry and Clara, 
Dewey Defeats Truman and other works of historical fiction, will 
give a talk on "Photography and Historical Fiction" on Wednesday, 
October 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Herring-Cole at St. Lawrence University. 
The event is open to the public, free of charge.
	Mallon is also the author of A Book of One's Own: People and 
Their Diaries and Stolen Words: Forays into the Origins and Ravages 
of Plagiarism. His 1993 book of essays, Rockets and Rodeos and Other 
American Spectacles, covers topics as diverse as former U.S. Vice 
President Dan Quayle, the Sundance Film Festival, and the vigil before 
an execution at the San Quentin penitentiary. Henry and Clara is a 
fictional, yet historically accurate, account of the couple who were 
with the Lincolns in the box at Ford's Theater when President Lincoln 
was shot, and Dewey Defeats Truman explores the 1948 U.S. presidential 
campaign through the eyes of the people of Dewey's hometown.
	The lecture is sponsored by the Friends of the Owen D. Young 
and Launders Libraries at St. Lawrence, in a continuing series on the 
role of books and literature in American culture.

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