Yale Bulletin and Calendar

February 23, 2007|Volume 35, Number 19

Three faculty writers to present
readings of their creative works

A dramatist and two novelists will give voice to their own words in the second of a two-part series of readings by Yale faculty in creative writing, being held at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 1, in Rm. 101 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 Wall St.

The event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Department of English.

The featured authors will be Amy Bloom, lecturer in English; Donald Margulies, professor (adjunct) of English and theater studies; and Caryl Phillips, professor of English. Brief biographies of the writers follow.

Amy Bloom

Bloom is the author of a novel, "Love Invents Us," and two collections of stories: "Come to Me," nominated for a National Book Award; and "A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You," nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards and numerous anthologies here and abroad. She has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, Slate and Salon, among many other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award. Her first book of non-fiction, "Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops and Hermaphrodites with Attitude," is an exploration of the varieties of gender.

Donald Margulies

Margulies received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for "Dinner with Friends." His many plays include "Brooklyn Boy," "Sight Unseen," "Collected Stories," "God of Vengeance," "Two Days," "The Model Apartment," "The Loman Family Picnic" and "What's Wrong with This Picture?" His plays have been performed at major theaters across the United States and around the world. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In 2005 he was honored with an Award in Literature given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is an alumnus of New Dramatists and serves on the council of the Dramatists Guild of America.

Caryl Phillips

Born in St. Kitts and raised in Britain, Phillips is the author of two anthologies; has written for television, radio, theater and film; and is the author of three works of non-fiction and eight novels. "Crossing the River," his depiction of the African diaspora, was shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize. His novel "A Distant Shore" won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers Prize and "Dancing in the Dark" won the 2006 Pen/Beyond the Margins Prize. His new book, "Foreigners: Three English Lives," will be published this fall. Phillips is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an honorary fellow of The Queens College, Oxford. His many honors include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize and Britain's oldest literary award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

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