Pulitzer Prize-winning author Paul Harding to read from his work at RPI April 12, 2018

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ALBANY, NY (04/02/2018) (readMedia)-- EVENT DETAILS:

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Paul Harding will read from his work at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 12 in the Biotech Auditorium, Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies Building on the RPI campus in Troy. The event, free and open to the public, is sponsored by the New York State Writers Institute, Rensselaer's 77th Annual McKinney Writing Contest and Reading and the Vollmer W. Fries Lecture Fund.

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Albany, NY - Pulitzer Prize-winning author Paul Harding will read from his work at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 12 in the Biotech Auditorium, Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies Building, Rensselaer (RPI), Troy.

The event, free and open to the public, is cosponsored by the New York State Writers Institute in conjunction with Rensselaer's 77th Annual McKinney Writing Contest and Reading and the Vollmer W. Fries Lecture Fund.

Harding received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Tinkers (2009), a father-and-son story about itinerant peddlers in the backwoods of Maine. The Pulitzer Committee described Tinkers as "a powerful celebration of life [that] offers new ways of perceiving the world and mortality." His second novel, Enon (2013), is the story of one man's enduring love for his daughter, and was named a best novel of the year by The Wall Street Journal and the American Library Association. The Chicago Tribune said "Enon confirms what the Pulitzer jury decided: Paul Harding--no longer a 'find' -- is a major voice in American fiction."

Harding, a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, was a fiction fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and has taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Harvard University, and Grinnell College. He was also the drummer in the band Cold Water Flat in the early 1990s.

For directions see: http://www.rpi.edu/tour/index.html. For additional information, contact the Writers Institute at 518-442-5620 or online at www.nyswritersinstitute.org

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