Writer Larry Baker to visit Flagler College on October 2

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St. Augustine resident and award-winning author Larry Baker

ST. AUGUSTINE, FL (09/15/2014)(readMedia)-- St. Augustine resident and award-winning author Larry Baker will visit Flagler College on Thursday, Oct. 2 for a reading and presentation as part of the College's popular Writers-in-Residence program, which brings a wide range of poets and writers to campus each year to celebrate the literary arts with students and the local community.

Baker will discuss his latest book, "The Education of Nancy Adams," in the historic Flagler Room in Ponce Hall at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

The new novel recounts the story of a woman who is about to go to work at the Florida high school from which she graduated twenty years earlier. Her own education is about to begin again as she enters a world where students are sometimes more mature than their teachers, and where she finally learns the truth about the man she thought she loved.

In addition to "The Education of Nancy Adams," Baker is the author of "Love and Other Delusions" (2012), "A Good Man" (2009), "Athens/America" (2005), and "Flamingo Rising" (1997), which was one of three finalists for the Barnes and Noble "Great New Voices" award for 1997, a Los Angeles Times "Top 100" book for 1997, and was chosen by the Iowa Center for the Book to represent Iowa at the 2010 National Book Festival in Washington. "Flamingo Rising" was also adapted for a Hallmark TV movie in 2001.

Baker is a long-time friend of Flagler College, and "The Education of Nancy Adams" is for sale exclusively in the College Bookstore. Baker will sign books after the event on October 2.

If you are a person with a disability and need reasonable accommodations, please contact Lynn Francisco at 904-819-6460. Sign Language Interpreters are available upon request with a minimum of three days' notice. Call (904) 819-6339 or visit www.flagler.edu/our-community/events/writers-in-residence for more information.

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Flagler College is a private, four-year comprehensive college located in St. Augustine, Fla. The college offers 29 majors, 34 minors and two pre-professional programs - the largest being business administration, communication, psychology and education. Small by intent, Flagler College has an enrollment of about 2,500 students, as well as a satellite campus at Tallahassee Community College in Tallahassee, Fla. U.S. News & World Report and The Princeton Review regularly feature Flagler as a college that offers quality education at a relatively low cost. A Flagler education is less than half the cost of similar private colleges, and competitive with many state universities. A relatively young institution (founded in 1968), Flagler College is also noted for its historic beauty. The centerpiece of the campus is the former Hotel Ponce de Leon, a grand resort built in 1888 by Henry M. Flagler, an industrialist, railroad pioneer and co-founder of Standard Oil. The Ponce has been designated as a National Historic Landmark. For more on Flagler College, visit www.flagler.edu.