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2011-12 Catalogue | Course Schedules: Summer 2012 | Spring 2012

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The Union University Department of English is pleased to announce that Peter Guralnick will read from his work at the UU Grant Center, 7:00 pm, Thursday, March 14, in a program sponsored by the UU Lyceum Committee and the Department of English. The event is free and open to the public. See http://www.peterguralnick.com/ From Peter Guralnick's Vanderbilt faculty page:

Guralnick’s books include the prize-winning two-volume biography of Elvis Presley, Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love, which The New York Times Book Review characterized as “among the most ambitious and crucial biographical undertakings yet devoted to a major American figure of the second half of the twentieth century.” Other books include an acclaimed trilogy on American roots music listed by the Blues Hall of Fame as classics of blues literature, Sweet Soul Music, Lost Highway, and Feel Like Going Home; the biographical inquiry Searching for Robert Johnson; the novel, Nighthawk Blues; and, most recently, Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke. Guralnick is currently at work on a biography of Sam Phillips.

English Professor Bobby C. Rogers has won the The Arlin G. Meyer Prize, a prize "awarded biennially to a fulltime faculty member from a college or university in the Lilly Fellows Program National Network Work that exemplifies the practice of the Christian artistic or scholarly vocation in relation to any pertinent subject matter or literary and artistic style." Prof. Rogers won for his book of poems, Paper Anniversary.