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Mount
Mercy College to Host Author Ethan Canin
CEDAR
RAPIDS, Iowa (May 1, 2008) – Author Ethan Canin will visit
Mount Mercy College on May 1, 2008. A question and answer period
will be held at 3:30 p.m., followed by a reading at 7:30 p.m.
Both sessions will be held the Flaherty Community Room located
in Basile Hall and are free and open to the public.
Ethan Canin
is the author of six books of fiction, including the story collections
Emperor of the Air and The Palace Thief, and
the novel Carry Me Across the Water. His widely anthologized
short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The
Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, The Paris Review,
and have been the basis for four Hollywood movies. A graduate
of Harvard Medical School and a licensed physician, Canin gave
up medicine to become a professor at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop
in Iowa City. His new novel, America America, is scheduled
to be published by Random House in May 2008.
Located in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Mount Mercy College is a Catholic College
providing student-focused baccalaureate education in the spirit
of the Sisters of Mercy. For more information about Mount Mercy
College, please visit www.mtmercy.edu.
Contacts:
Stacey Jones, Assistant Director of Marketing
(319) 368-6475, sjones@mtmercy.edu
Molly Altorfer, Director of Communications and Marketing
(319) 368-6475, maltorfer@mtmercy.edu
