July 29, 2008

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Writers' Series will present a reading by award-winning author John Sullivan, 4 p.m. Wed., Sept. 10, at the UAB Mary Culp Hulsey Recital Hall, 950 13th St. S. This afternoon event is free and open to the public. For more details, call the UAB Department of English at 205-934-4250.

Sullivan, a native of Louisville, Ky., earned recognition for his first book "Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter's Son" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), which was named as the 2004 "Book of the Year" by the Economist magazine and was a finalist for the PEN Foundation's nonfiction prize. The New York Review of Books called Sullivan "an original and greatly gifted writer."

Sullivan's work has been published in the Best American Magazine Writing and Best Music Writing collections, as well as in the Best of the Oxford American anthologies.

Sullivan has worked as a correspondent for GQ magazine and as a contributing editor at Harper's Magazine. He won the Whiting Writers' Award, the National Magazine Award and a research fellowship at the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.

The Writers' Series is an annual offering of the UAB Program in Creative Writing.