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MIT Program in
Writing and Humanistic Studies
MIT, Room 14E-303
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Telephone: 617-253-7894
FAX: 617-253-6910
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MIT Writers presents . . .
Gerald Early
Director, African and Afro-American Studies
Washington University, St. Louis
will read from his paper titled:
'SAMMY DAVIS, JR.: THE LAST GREAT AMERICAN HIPSTER'
Thursday, December 2, 1999
8:00 p.m. - Room 66-110
free and open to the public - no tickets required
 Gerald Early is the author of The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture, winner of the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award, and Tuxedo Junction: Essays on American Culture, both published by Ecco. A recipient of the Whiting Writer's Prize and the General Electric-CCLM Foundation Award, Early i s Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also heads the African and Afro-American Studies Program.
Gerald Early's essays have appeared in Harpers, the New Republic, Civilization, and Hungry Mind Review.
His last two books are The Muhammad Ali Reader (Ecco Press) and Ain’t But a Place: An Anthology of African American Writings About St. Louis (Missouri Historical Society Press).
Gerald Early is currently working on a history of Fisk University, a historically black college in Nashville (Free Press) and the Sammy Davis Jr. Reader (Farrar, Strauss, Giroux), a compilation of interviews with and articles about the famous entertainer.
Free and open to the public
Sponsored by the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies
For more information, call 617/253-7894
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