2005 Hemingway/PEN and L.L. Winship/PEN New England Literary Awards

Chris Abani to Receive Hemingway/PEN Award for Graceland

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Richard Russo to Deliver Keynote

On Sunday, April 10, PEN New England and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum will honor Chris Abani as the 2005 recipient of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for a distinguished first book of fiction for Graceland (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).

Ross Terrill Reads at Hotel Marlowe

Wednesday April 6, 2005
6:15 - 7:30 pm
(During Wine Hour, which begins at 5:30)
Hotel Marlowe

Ross Terrill is the author of seven books on China, including China in Our Time, Madame Mao, 800,000,000 Million, and Mao. He also wrote Socialism as Fellowship: R. H. Tawney and His Times, while on the faculty at Harvard, and later The Australians.

Winner of the National Magazine Award and the George Polk Award, he has published nineteen articles in The Atlantic Monthly and many in Foreign Affairs, The New Republic, National Geographic and other national magazines. A regular visitor to China for thirty-odd years, he has been a special commentator for CBS News, four times on the "Today Show," a number of times on ABC's "Nightline," and testified before the United States Congress. His current book, The New Chinese Empire, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

Books will be for sale courtesy of Porter Square Books.

The Hotel Marlowe is located at 25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge.
Inexpensive parking is available in the Cambridgeside Galleria garage with direct entry into the hotel from Levels A and C. The hotel is closest to the Lechmere T-stop, and is within walking distance of Charles and Kendall Square.

For more information call 617.349.8113 or e-mail pen_ne@lesley.edu.

7th Annual Children's Book Discovery Evening Winners

Children's Book Discovery Evening
Sunday April 3, 2005 at 6:30 pm
Simmons College

The Children's Book Discovery Evening recognizes new talent and give authors and illustrators of children's fiction and non-fiction the opportunity to share their work with the writing and publishing community.