Writers Series Will Host Butler and Dewberry Oct. 21-22
For release: October 9, 2003
For press information, contact Gabrielle Maxey

The University of Memphis will continue its fall 2003 River City Writers Series Oct. 21-22 with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Robert Olen Butler and his wife, novelist and playwright Elizabeth Dewberry.

Events, which are all free and open to the public, include:

• Butler will conduct a fiction workshop Oct. 21 at 4 p.m. in Patterson Hall, Room 403.
• Both writers will give an interview Oct. 22 from 9:30-10:45 a.m. in Patterson Hall, Room 456.
• Dewberry will teach a class Oct. 22 from 12:40-2:05 p.m. in Patterson Hall, Room 217.
• Butler and Dewberry will read from their work Oct. 22 at 8 p.m. in Fogelman Executive Center, Room 123. A reception and book signing will follow. Convenient parking is available at the Fogelman Executive Center garage.

Butler won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for his novel A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. His work has appeared in Best American Short Stories and New Stories from the South. Butler, the author of 10 novels, two collections of short stories and several screenplays, is a professor at Florida State University.

Dewberry is a playwright-in-residence at Florida State. Her one-act plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles and at the Humana Festival of New American Plays. She is the author of three full-length plays - Flesh and Blood, Four Joans and a Fire-Eater and Many Things Have Happened Since He Died…And Here Are the Highlights - and three novels.

For more information, call the Department of English at 678-2651 or Cary Holladay, assistant professor and director of the series, at 678-4405.

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