Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series to Host Novelist and Short Story Writer Tony Earley Feb. 11

PITTSBURGH—Novelist and short story writer Tony Earley will give a free reading as part of the University of Pittsburgh Writing Program's Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series at 8:30 p.m. Feb. 11 in Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Room 125, Schenley Drive, Oakland.

Earley is author of the novel Jim the Boy (Little, Brown & Company, 2000) and two short story collections, Here We Are in Paradise (Little, Brown & Company, 1994) and Somehow Form a Family: Stories That Are Mostly True (Algonquin of Chapel Hill, 2001).

Selected in 1996 by Granta publishing company as one of America's best young writers, Earley also received a National Magazine Award for fiction for his short stories. He has twice been included in the acclaimed anthology Best American Short Stories. The New York Times called Jim the Boy, his first novel, "a radiant, knowing, pitch-perfect parable of childhood." Here We Are in Paradise received critical acclaim in The New York Times Book Review and the magazine Details.

Earley is an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn.

The Contemporary Writers Series is cosponsored by the Wyndham Garden Hotel-University Place, The Book Center, Film Studies Program, Composition Program, and the University of Pittsburgh Press.

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