Tuesday, January 28, 2003

WILMINGTON, NC—Novelist Donna Tartt will read from her works at 8 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 6, in Kenan Auditorium at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. This free, public event is sponsored by the university’s Creative Writing Department as part of the Katherine K. Buckner Distinguished Presentation Series. A reception and book signing will follow.

Tartt’s recent novel, The Little Friend, was published in 2002 to critical acclaim.

“She (Tartt) is on a major national promotional tour, so we are thrilled to be able to bring her to Wilmington,” said Mark Cox, chair of the UNCW Creative Writing Department.

Tartt attended Bennington College where she began her first novel The Secret History. The work was published by Knopf in 1992, and it reached number two on the Publishers Weekly Bestsellers List.

A novelist, essayist and critic, Tartt has had her work published in magazines such as Harper’s and GQ and in the anthology The Best American Sports Writing. Publishers Weekly calls her “a superb storyteller, sophisticated observer of human nature and keen appraiser of ethics and morality.”

While the event is free, tickets are required. They can be reserved at the auditorium box office by calling 910/962-3500.

For more information, contact the UNCW Creative Writing Department

at 910-962-7063.