Award-winning, Brooklyn-born novelist to read from work Monday (Nov. 17)

WHAT:	A reading from "The Fisher King," as part of the "Writers at Rutgers" series
WHO:	Award-winning novelist Paule Marshall
WHEN:	Monday, Nov. 17, 8 p.m.
WHERE:	Rutgers College Student Center, Multipurpose Room, second floor, 126 College Ave., New Brunswick

BACKGROUND: Brooklyn-born Paule Marshall is the author of five novels, including the classic "Brown Girl, Brownstones" (1959), "Praisesong for the Widow" (1983) and "The Fisher King" (2000), and of two short story collections, "Soul Clap Hands and Sing" (1961) and "Reena and Other Stories" (1983).

According to Publishers Weekly, "Marshall writes with verve, clarity and humor, capturing the cadences of black speech while deftly portraying the complexity of family relationships and the social issues that beset black Americans."

Among her many awards are an American Book Award and the John Dos Passos Award for Literature. The recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship award, sometimes called a "genius" award, Marshall holds five honorary doctorate degrees, including one from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She has taught at Yale and Columbia universities, the Iowa Writers Workshop and the University of California-Berkeley, and now holds a distinguished chair in the graduate creative writing program at New York University.

The "Writers at Rutgers" series is sponsored by the Office of Student Leadership, Involvement and Programs, and the department of English.

Contact: Sue Brooks
732/932-7084 ext. 610
Email: sbrooks@ur.rutgers.edu