NEWS RELEASE

Contact: David West (west@nsula.edu )
News Bureau
Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA 71497
(318) 357-6466

6/15/2005

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NATCHITOCHES ­Author Ellen Douglas will speak at Northwestern State University Tuesday, June 28. The visit is sponsored by the NSU Writing Project Summer Institute.

Douglas will share insights and experiences from her many decades of writing novels and short stories with summer fellows in the NSU Writing Project Summer Institute. She will be the featured guest a dinner, reading and book signing on June 28 at 6 p.m. in the Natchitoches Room of Russell Hall on the Northwestern campus. Tickets are $20. Reservations can be made by calling Ada Hippler at (318) 357-5339 on or before Monday, June 20.

"This first-hand exposure to an award-winning author will certainly enhance the educational experience of this year's Summer Institute participants as well as entertain the citizens of Natchitoches," said Dr. Suzanne Green, director of the NSU Writing Project Summer Institute.

Douglas' 1961, short story, On the Lake, was included in the O. Henry Collection. During the same year, her novel A Family's Affairs, was awarded the Houghton Mifflin Fellowship and was recognized as one of the five best novels of the year by the New York Times. In 1963, her novel, Black Cloud, White Cloud, received an award for being one of the five best fiction works of the year. She was also a finalist for the National Book Award for Apostle of Light.

From 1976 to 1979, she was the writer-in-residence at Northeast Louisiana University. Douglas held the same position at the University of Mississippi from 1979 to 1983. In 1984, Ms. Douglas was writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia. Douglas lives in Jackson, Miss.

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