Author Event with Lee Martin

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Main Street Books is pleased to announce an author event with Pulitzer Prize Finalist and OSU professor of creative writing, Lee Martin. The author will read and sign books in The Book Loft on Friday, March 1, 2013 at 6pm. Lee Martin is the Pulitzer Prize Finalist author of The Bright Forever, and three other novels, including Break the Skin. His other books are the novels, River of Heaven and Quakertown; the memoirs, Such a Life, From Our House, and Turning Bones; and the short story collection, The Least You Need to Know. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in such places as Harper's, Ms., Creative Nonfiction, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, and Glimmer Train. He is the winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council. He teaches in the MFA Program at The Ohio State University, where he was the winner of the 2006 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. The event will begin at 6pm during downtown Mansfield's March First Friday Shop Hop and will be followed by Main Street Books' monthly Poetry & Prose Extravaganza, a literary open mic, at 8pm.