Plutzik Series features novelist Howard

Howard

ovelist and essayist Maureen Howard will read from her work at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, February 26, in the Welles-Brown Room of Rush Rhees Library part of the 40th anniversary season of the Hyam Plutzik Memorial Poetry Series.

Author of nine novels, including her latest, Big As Life, Howard is also known for her essays and reviews that have been published in literary journals and newspapers such as The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. Her autobiography, Facts of Life, received the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Howard is the editor of Edith Wharton: Collected Stories for the Library of America and has served as executive vice president of PEN-America, a fellowship of writers who work to advance literature, promote reading, and defend free expression.

A three-time finalist for the PEN-Faulkner Award, Howard has received the Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill, Bunting, and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. She is currently a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Administered by the Department of English, the Plutzik Poetry Series is one of the country's oldest and most prestigious literary reading programs and has featured more than 175 noted writers, including Pulitzer Prize-winner Anthony Hecht, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, and Gwendolyn Brooks.

For more information on the series, contact the Department of English, x5-4092.

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