Author Gay Talese Helps Launch New Masters of Arts Writing Program
Author Gay Talese Helps Launch New Masters of Arts Writing Program
March 28, 2001
Celebrated author Gay Talese and editor Barbara Lounsberry will appear at Rowan University?s College of Communication on Tuesday, April 10, at 6:30 p.m. to help launch the new Master of Arts in Writing program, which officially began in Fall 2000.
Talese is author of the recently acclaimed best seller ?Unto the Sons,? an historical memoir that spanned two world wars. Earlier best sellers by Talese include ?The Kingdom of the Power,? which deals with the influence of the ?New York Times;? ?Honor Thy Father,? which is the inside story of a Mafia family and the changing moral values of America during World War II; and ?Thy Neighbor?s Wife,? which is a story told during the era before AIDS.
Lounsberry is the nonfiction editor of ?The North American Review,? the oldest literary magazine in the United States. A professor of English and distinguished scholar at the University of Northern Iowa, Lounsberry has also published several other texts, including ?The Art of Fact: Contemporary Artists of Nonfiction? and ?The Writer in You.? Lounsberry and Talese co-edited ?Writing Creative Nonfiction: the Literature of Reality.?
The presentation is free and open to the public. Seating is limited and reservations are required. For more information call the College of Communication at 856-256-4340 or 856-256-4049.
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Talese is author of the recently acclaimed best seller ?Unto the Sons,? an historical memoir that spanned two world wars. Earlier best sellers by Talese include ?The Kingdom of the Power,? which deals with the influence of the ?New York Times;? ?Honor Thy Father,? which is the inside story of a Mafia family and the changing moral values of America during World War II; and ?Thy Neighbor?s Wife,? which is a story told during the era before AIDS.
Lounsberry is the nonfiction editor of ?The North American Review,? the oldest literary magazine in the United States. A professor of English and distinguished scholar at the University of Northern Iowa, Lounsberry has also published several other texts, including ?The Art of Fact: Contemporary Artists of Nonfiction? and ?The Writer in You.? Lounsberry and Talese co-edited ?Writing Creative Nonfiction: the Literature of Reality.?
The presentation is free and open to the public. Seating is limited and reservations are required. For more information call the College of Communication at 856-256-4340 or 856-256-4049.
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