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September 7, 2007

Fairy tale author kicks off Purdue's Literary Reading Series

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The 2007-08 Purdue University Literary Reading Series begins its season with a fiction reading by author Kate Bernheimer at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 18. Bernheimer's fiction reading is in the Matthews Hall Auditorium. She also will discuss fiction writing at 10:30 a.m. on Sept. 19 in the Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall. Both events, which are free and open to the public, are sponsored by the Department of English, the Creative Writing Program and the Jewish Studies Program.

Bernheimer is the author of two novels, "The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold" and "The Complete Tales of Merry Gold," as well as the forthcoming children's book "The Girl in the Castle Inside the Museum." She also is editor of two essay collections, "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales" and "Brothers and Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales." Bernheimer edits Fairy Tale Review, a journal she founded.

"Kate Bernheimer is an amazing prose stylist and a real original," said Porter Shreve, director of the Creative Writing Program and associate professor of English. While her fiction draws upon traditional German, Russian and Yiddish folklore and fairy tales, she is very much a contemporary writer. These are coming of age stories unlike any I've read."

Bernheimer teaches creative writing at the University of Alabama.

The next 2007-08 Purdue University Literary Reading Series visiting author is poet Adam Zagajewski. His talk is 7:30 p.m. Oct. 18 in the Matthews Hall Auditorium.

Media contact: Amy Patterson Neubert, (765) 494-9723, apatterson@purdue.edu

Sources:   Porter Shreve, (765) 496-1651, pshreve@purdue.edu

Daryll Lynne Evans, assistant director of Creative Writing, (765) 494-3783, boliviared@purdue.edu

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