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ONEONTA, N.Y. -- As an installment of the Red Dragon Reading Series,
Robert Olen Butler, recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, will
present a reading from his work at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 19, in the
Hunt Union Ballroom at the SUNY College at Oneonta. A reception and book
signing will follow the reading. Admission to the event is complimentary,
and members of the community are invited to attend.
Butler is the author of 16 books of fiction, including Tabloid Dreams,
They Whisper, and Severance, as well as From Where You
Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction. In addition to the 1993 Pulitzer
Prize in Fiction for A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, Butler has
been honored with a National Magazine Award for Fiction, the Richard and
Hinda Rosenthal Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters, and fellowships
from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim
Foundation.
Butler's appearance at SUNY-Oneonta is co-sponsored by the College Union
Activities Council, Parnassus: The English Club, and
Art & Scope.
More information about the event is available from the SUNY-Oneonta
Department of English
at (607) 436-3446.
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