GRANVILLE--Denison University's 2001/2002 season of the Beck Lecture series continues with a reading by fiction writer Lynn Freed at 8 p.m. on Wednesday (March 20) in the Slayter Hall Faculty Lounge. This event is free and open to the public.

Lynn Freed

Born in Durban, South Africa, Freed now resides in Northern California. She is the author of four books includingHome Ground, The BungalowandThe Mirror, which have appeared on the New York Times Notable Books of the Year list.Home Groundwon the Bay Area Book Reviewers' Award for Fiction in 1986.The BungalowandThe Mirrorwere both nominated for the same award in 1993 and 1997, respectively.

Her short fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, Southwest Review and Vogue, among others. Her work also has been included in a number of anthologies and named inBest American Short Stories. Both her books and short pieces have been published and translated abroad.

Freed is the recipient of fellowships, grants and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Guggenheim Foundation, the Corporation of Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony and the Rockefeller Foundation. She is a professor of English at the University of California in Davis.

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