Award-winning author to read from his work as part of WFU series
Award-winning novelist and short-story author Reginald McKnight will read from his work April 3 at 8 p.m. in Benson University Center’s Pugh Auditorium at Wake Forest University. The event is free and open to the public.
McKnight has won numerous awards for his fiction including the Drue Heinz Prize, a Pushcart Prize, an O. Henry Award, two Kenyon Review Awards and a special citation from the PEN/Hemingway Foundation. His latest novel, “He Sleeps” (2002), was featured on National Public Radio in October of 2002.
His first novel, “I Get on the Bus,” was published in 1990 and his short story collections include “Moustapha’s Eclipse” (1988), “The Kind of Light that Shines on Texas” (1992) and “White Boys” (1998).
McKnight is the Hamilton Holmes Professor of English at the University of Georgia.
The April 3 event is part of the Dillon Johnston Writers Reading Series, sponsored by the Wake Forest English department. For more information, call 336-758-3366.
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