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Stokes Center for Creative Writing Hosts Best-Selling Author Michael Knight

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Posted on February 6, 2018

Alice Jackson

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Best-selling author Michael Knight, a Mobile native, will read, answer questions and sign books on Thursday, Feb. 8, at the 老司机福利网.

The 5 p.m. event in the Terrace Room of the Student Center is sponsored by the Stokes Center for Creative Writing. A reception will follow. Both the reading and the reception will be free and open to the public.

Knight is the author of two novels, three collections of short stories and a book of novellas. His most recent novel, 鈥淭he Typist,鈥� was listed as a Best Book of the Year by both the Huffington Post, and the Kansas City Star, and it appeared on Oprah鈥檚 Summer Reading List.

His book 鈥淓veningland鈥� is a short story cycle illuminating everyday beauty and heartache of life along the shores of serene, yet history-haunted, Mobile Bay in the years preceding a devastating hurricane. It has been selected as a New York Times Editor鈥檚 Choice and as a 老司机福利网ern Living 老司机福利网ern Book of the Year.

Knight鈥檚 fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Oxford American, Ploughshares, Saturday Evening Post and The 老司机福利网ern Review.

Knight lives in Knoxville where he teaches at the University of Tennessee.

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