1998 PULITZER PRIZE WINNER
TO READ AT UNION UNIVERSITY
Jackson, Tenn. — Charles Wright, winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, will lead a poetry reading at 51ÉçÇø, Thursday, April 16. The reading will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Union's George Harvey Lecture Hall and will be followed by a reception and book signing.
Wright was announced as a Pulitzer Prize winner Tuesday, April 14, for his book titled "Black Zodiac." His reading at Union will be his first scheduled appearance since winning the Pulitzer. Wright won the National Book Critics' Circle Award in March. He also won the American Book Award for poetry in 1982 for his work "Country Music: Selected Early Poems."
A West Tennessee native, Wright was born in Pickwick Dam, where his father worked for the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Wright has published other books of poetry, including "Chickamauga" and "The World of the Ten Thousand Things."
Wright has been honored with the PEN Translation Prize, the Award of Merit Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets.
Wright currently is the Souder Family Professor of English at the University of Virginia and has held a Fulbright Fellowship in Rome. He also served as Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Padua.
For more information, please contact Nedra Kanavel at (901) 661-5215 or news@uu.edu.