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October 25, 2006
SELINSGROVE, ( Pa. ) – Acclaimed novelist Jennifer Haigh will present a reading of her work at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, November 9, in Isaacs Auditorium of Susquehanna University's Seibert Hall. Haigh's reading is part of the 2006-2007 Visiting Writers Series, sponsored by The Writers Institute at Susquehanna University. The reading is free and open to the public. Books by Haigh will be available for purchase and signing following the reading.
Haigh is most famous for her novel Mrs. Kimble, which was published in 2003 and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for outstanding first fiction novel. Her newest novel, Baker Towers, is a New York Times bestseller. It won the PEN/L.L. Winship Award, a recognition given to a book by a New England writer.
“The living, breathing organism that is Ms. Haigh's captivating book... [is an] effortlessly haunting story ... with satisfyingly real and vivid individuals,” raved The New York Times of Baker Towers.
In an interview with Barnes and Noble, Haigh described Baker Towers as “an intimate novel, a book about the ways people behave when they think no one is looking… All my life I've fantasized about being invisible. I love the idea of watching people when they don't know they're being observed.”
Haigh was born and raised in Barnesboro, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Dickinson College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her work has been published in magazines such as Good Housekeeping, the Hartford Courant, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review.
Haigh is the third of six visiting writers scheduled to read at Susquehanna during the 2006-2007 academic year. The next reading hosted by The Writers Institute will be given by Tom Bailey, associate professor of English and creative writing at Susquehanna University, on January 25. Bailey will read from his newest novel Cotton Song, scheduled for release by Random House's Crown Publishing Group under the Shaye Areheart Books imprint on October 31.
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Contact: Victoria Kidd
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