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                                                       Southeastern Louisiana University
                                           Public Information Office
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                                           SLU 880, Hammond, LA 70402
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    Date: 3/8/99
      Contact:                           Carol Dotson   5

AUTHORS TO READ FROM WORKS AT SLU'S LITERARY FESTIVAL 
     HAMMOND -- Louisiana authors Ernest Hill, Valerie Martin and Shirley Ann Grau are
the scheduled guests for Southeastern Louisiana University's Literary Festival in March. 
     Hill, author of Satisfied with Nothin' and A Life for A Life, is the writer-in-residence at
Southern University. He will give a reading Wednesday, March 10 at 3pm in the Sims
Memorial Library. Publisher Simon and Schuster describes Hill as "one of today's most
important voices chronicling the African-American experience."
     Martin, will read from her recent works Thursday, March 18 at 2pm in the Sims
Memorial Library. Martin's novels include Set in Motion, Alexandra, A Recent Martyr, Mary
Reilly and The Great Divorce and the story collection, The Consolation of Nature. Her novel,
Italian Fever will be published in July. She is currently visiting writer-in-residence at Loyola
University in New Orleans. 
     Grau, who was awarded the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for her novel, The Keepers of the House,
will give a reading Tuesday March 16 at 2pm in the Sims Memorial Library. The New Orleans
native's other novels include Roadwalkers, The House on Coliseum Street, The Hard Blue Sky,
The condor Passes and Evidence of Love and three story collections. 
     "The festival is designed to spotlight some of the finest writers in the south," said Don
Marshall, director Southeastern's Cultural Resource Management program, which organized the
festival.
     The readings are free and open to the public. For more information about the
Southeastern Literary Festival, call the Cultural Resource Management Program at 504-549-
5080.
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