Novelist, essayist to speak at UNT March 1

Novelist and essayist David Huddle, described by critics as writing with an "autobiographical impulse" by studying what goes on inside the mind of characters, will read selections from his work at UNT March 1.

Huddle's reading begins at 7:30 p.m. in the University Union Golden Eagle Suite. The reading, free and open to the public, is part of 2000-2001 Visiting Writer Series sponsored by the English Department.

A professor of English at the University of Vermont, Huddle is the author of four books of short stories, four volumes of poetry and a collection of essays. His novel The Story of a Million Years, was selected by Esquire magazine as a Distinguished First Novel and named Best Book of the Year for 1999 by the Los Angeles Times Book Review. Huddle's second novel, La Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl, will be published later this year.

His work has appeared in Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Virginia Quarterly Review, Playboy and Best American Short Stories, among other publications. Huddle was acting editor of the New England Review for two years and has held two National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowships and a fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

In addition to teaching at the University of Vermont, Huddle has taught at Indiana University and Warren Willson College in North Carolina. He was a visiting writer at Idaho University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Huddle received his bachelor of arts degree from the University of Virginia, master of arts degree from Hollins College in Virginia and his master of fine arts degree from Columbia University.

BY NANCY KOLSTI nkolsti@unt.edu

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