Final Second Sunday Reading

The final Second Sunday Reading for the 2001-2002 academic year will be held April 14, 2002, in Wilson Library on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus. The featured readers will be Susan Kelly and Barry Saunders. The program will begin at 2:30 and will be followed by light refreshments served in the Wilson Library lobby.

Susan Kelly grew up in Rutherfordton, N.C., and earned the B.A. degree in English at UNC-Chapel Hill. She also holds the M.F.A. degree in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College. Her first novel, How Close We Come, won the Carolina Novel Award in 1997 and was reissued nationally in 1998 by Warner Books. Her second novel, Even Now, was published by Warner Books in July 2000. She currently lives in Greensboro.

Barry Saunders has been a regular featured columnist since 1993 for the Raleigh News & Observer, where his column appears most Tuesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. A graduate of Morehouse College, he is the author of Do Unto Others ... and Then Run, a collection of columns that was published in 2000. Of the collection, Ben Bradlee of the Washington Post said, "These columns are fantastically good, equal to the best I've ever read for relevance, for bite, for class and style." A native of Rockingham, N.C., Mr. Saunders now is a resident of Durham.

The April 14th program will conclude a ten-year run of the series, which will not be held next year. The Readings have been sponsored by the North Carolina Collection, the North Caroliniana Society, and the Creative Writing Program in the Department of English. Doris Betts coordinated the series from 1992 until 1996 and Michael McFee from 1996 through 2002.