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Michael Chabon
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Adelphi University Presents "An Evening with Michael Chabon" on Monday March 10, 2003
Garden City, NY
March 5, 2003
Adelphi University is pleased to present the annual Rita Diamandopoulos Lecture, "An Evening With Michael Chabon," delivered this year by the celebrated author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay beginning at 8:00 PM in the Ballroom of the Ruth S. Harley University Center. The lecture is free and open to the public.
The distinguished author will also be present on the morning of Tuesday, March 11, 2003 for a conversation and reading with students entitled "New York in Literature: A Conversation with Michael Chabon," funded by The New York Council for the Humanities, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Mr. Chabon will be the featured speaker at a breakfast panel and reception, also free and open to the public, to be moderated by Dr. Kris Fresonke of the Department of English as part of the "New York in Literature" program, directed by Dr. Steven Rubin and Dr. Igor Webb with other writers and speakers at Adelphi this spring.
Michael Chabon was born in 1963, in Washington, D.C. and studied at the University of Pittsburgh, got an M.F.A. in Creative Writing at U.C. Irvine, and has spent most of the past fifteen years in California. Random House published his third novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, in September 2000. It followed The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988) and Wonder Boys (1995), as well as two collections of short stories, A Model World and Other Stories (1990) and Werewolves In Their Youth (1999). He has also written articles and essays, and a number of screenplays and teleplays.
His story "Son of the Wolfman" was chosen for the 1999 O. Henry collection and for a National Magazine Award. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay was selected by the American Library Association as one of the Notable Books of 2000 and was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. It won the New York Society Library Prize for Fiction, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, the Commonwealth Club Gold Medal, and the Pulitzer Prize.
Mr. Chabon comes to Adelphi after lecturing widely on topics including the art and craft of writing and the tradition of Jewish fiction, before audiences all over the United States and in Russia, Finland, the Ukraine, Italy, France, Great Britain, Germany and Canada. He has spoken to the creative teams at Pixar Animation Studios about fantasy and childhood, to the employees of Industrial Light and Magic about the art of storytelling, and to many different literary, Jewish, and corporate organizations about a wide variety of topics. Michael Chabon is currently working on a new novel, Hatzeplatz, and a book of short stories, Tales of Mystery and Imagination. His first young adult novel, Summerland, was published in Fall 2002 by Talk Miramax Books.
Adelphi University, chartered in 1896, was the first institution of higher education for liberal arts and sciences on Long Island. Through its schools and programs -- The College of Arts and Science, the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, the Honors College, University College/ABLE Program, and the Schools of Business, Education, Nursing, and Social Work -- the co-educational university offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, as well as professional and educational programs for adults. Adelphi University currently enrolls over 7,000 students from 37 states and 60 foreign countries. With its main campus in Garden City and centers in Manhattan, Hauppauge, and Poughkeepsie, the University maintains a commitment to liberal studies in tandem with rigorous professional preparation.
Media Contact
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Lori Duggan Gold
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