Thursday, February 26, 1998
8 p.m.

Salem State College
Salem, Massachusetts
Martin Luther King, Jr. Room
Ellison Campus Center


David Bradley
Novelist

David Bradley is the author of two novels, _South Street_ (1975)
and _The Chaneysville Incident_ (1981) which was awarded the 1982
PEN/Faulkner Prize and an Academy Award from the American Academy
of Arts and Letters.  His nonfiction has appeared in such
publications as _Esquire_, _Redbook_, _The New York Times_, _The
Los Angeles Times_ and _The New Yorker_. A recipient of
fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the
National Endowment for the Arts, he recently co-edited (with
Shelley Fisher Fishkin) _The Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in
America_ (1998). A Mark Twain scholar working at The College of
William and Mary in Virginia, he is currently completing a
nonfiction book, _The Bondage Hypothesis: Meditations on Race,
History and America._

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