Hunter College Friends of the Library Fundraiser Will Feature Award-Winning Novelist and Visiting Professor Peter Carey on Nov. 12
Date: October 25, 2002
Contact: Marisa Osorio ( marisa.osorio@hunter.cuny.edu)
Phone: (212) 650-3736
Contact: Kerry Dvorin (kerryd103@aol.com)
Phone: (212) 772-4386
A fund-raising event to support the Hunter College Library will feature award-winning author and Hunter College visiting professor Peter Carey on Tuesday, November 12.
Hosted by The Friends of the Hunter College Library and Hunter College President Jennifer J. Raab, the evening will include a cocktail reception at 6:15 p.m. and a presentation by Carey at 7:30 p.m. with all proceeds to benefit the library.
The reception will be held in the Leona and Marcy Chanin Language Center, Level B1, Hunter College West Building on the southwest corner of 68th Street and Lexington Avenue. Carey's presentation will be in the Ida K. Lang Recital Hall, 4th floor Hunter College North Building on 68th Street between Lexington and Park Avenues.
Two-time winner of the prestigious Booker Prize for Fiction, Australian-born novelist Peter Carey was recognized in 1988 for his epic Victorian love story Oscar and Lucinda and again in 2001 for the True History of the Kelly Gang. His other books are The Fat Man in History, Jack Maggs, The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith, The Tax Inspector, Illywhacker and Bliss. Carey moved to New York in 1990 and teaches at Columbia University and New York University.
During his presentation, Carey will discuss his life as a writer, including how his novel Oscar and Lucinda was transformed to a major Hollywood movie starring Ralph Fiennes and Cate Blanchett. A question-and-answer session will follow and the evening will end with Carey signing his novel, True History of the Kelly Gang.
The Friends of the Hunter College Library was formed in 1990 to ensure the lasting strength of the library system. The funds raised will be used to expand library resources available to students, including broadening books, reference materials, and electronic databases at the College's four libraries.
Tickets for the event are $150 for the cocktail reception and presentation and $50 for the presentation alone. Students and faculty will be admitted free to the presentation with a valid Hunter ID and senior citizens auditing courses may attend the presentation for $25. Reservations for the event must be made by November 5. For more information, call Hunter College, founded in 1870, has long enjoyed a national reputation for excellence in liberal arts and sciences and professional education. Hunter's main campus, located on 68th Street on Manhattan's Upper East Side, consists of the School of Arts and Sciences and School of Education. The college also includes a school of Social Work on East 79th Street as well as the Schools of the Health Professions (Nursing and Health Sciences) located at the Brookdale Health Science Center on East 25th Street; an MFA building and art gallery on the West Side; and the Hunter College Campus Schools serving gifted and talented students, preschool through grade 12.
(212) 650-3607.