What do Gloria Naylor, Ernest J. Gaines, Rita Dove, Jamaica Kincaid and 15 of the world's other most distinguished authors have in common? Each has been a guest speaker at Marygrove College's Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series, an event that brings a nationally-known author to the College's campus each year for a public lecture and seminar with students.
This year the Marygrove English and Modern Languages Department has announced that noted science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany will be the twentieth visiting author to participate in the series. He will deliver the Lillian and Donald Bauder Lecture on Friday, April 11, 2008 at 8 p.m. in Marygrove's Madame Cadillac Building Alumnae Hall. The lecture is free to the public; a private reception and dinner is available for $100 per person.
The second author of science fiction to participate in the series-the first was the late Octavia Butler in 1994-the tireless Delany has written nearly fifty book-length works: novels, short stories, essays, memoirs, and literary criticism. He grew up in Harlem and began his career as a novelist at age nineteen. By the time he was twenty-five (1967), he had published nine novels and won two Nebula Awards, given to the year's best works of science fiction.
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