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Turning Fact Into Fiction

How a Novelist Works

 

The Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley
cordially invites you to a discussion on
TURNING FACT INTO FICTION:
How a Novelist Works
BARBARA WRIGHT
Author of Plain Language
TOM ENGELHARDT
Author of The Last Days of Publishing

Barbara Wright has written magazine and newspaper articles for Esquire, USA Today, Christian Science Monitor and Working Woman. Her most recent novel, Plain Language, was published by Touchstone/Simon&Schuster in 2003. Her first novel, Easy Money, was published by Algonquin Books. She is currently at work on a novel about three women friends - a journalist, a painter, and a therapist - who meet while covering the war in El Salvador. She lives in Kansas City, Missouri.

Tom Engelhardt, for fifteen years a senior editor at Pantheon Books, is now consulting editor at Metropolitan Books, a Fellow of the Nation Institute, and a Teaching Fellow at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He is a regular book reviewer and essayist for numerous periodicals and newspapers, and author of The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation (University of Massachusetts Press, 1998.) He is also creator and editor of the weblog TomDispatch.com.
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Tuesday
April 29, 2003
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Location:
Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
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North Gate Hall
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
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