<html><body><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Anne Fadiman, </SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">author of the best-seller <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Ex-Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader </I>and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, </I>will<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> </I>speak at <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Cleveland Public Library’s Writers and Readers Series </B>on <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Sunday, May 4, 2:00 p.m. Free and open to the public</B>, the event will take place at the <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Main Library, Louis Stokes Wing Auditorium, E. 6<SUP>th</SUP> Street and Superior Avenue.<o:p></o:p></B></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">A native of New York City, Fadiman was born to literary, radio and television personality <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Clifton Fadiman</B> and World War II correspondent and author <SPAN class=brokenlink><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Annalee Jacoby</B> Fadiman. She attended Harvard and graduated from Radcliffe College.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Fadiman’s <I>The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down</I></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> (1997) continues to be used at universities in writing classes as both an example of literary journalism and as a casebook for cultural sensitivity. Her best-selling <I>Ex-Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader</I> (1998) is a widely-read collection of her essays about books and reading gleaned from the Library of Congress magazine, <I>Civilization, </I>where she was one of the founding editors.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">From 1998 to 2004, Fadiman was the editor of <I>The American Scholar, </I>the quarterly magazine of public affairs, literature, science, history, and culture published by Phi Beta Kappa. A winner of two National Magazine Awards for her reporting and her essays, Fadiman’s work has appeared in <I>The New York Times, The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Washington</st1:State></st1:place> Post, Harper’s, The New Yorker</I> and numerous other periodicals. Her latest book, a collection of essays from <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The American Scholar</I>, is <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">at Large and at Small: Familiar Essays</I> (2007).<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Fadiman is currently the Francis Writer in Residence at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Yale</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. She lives in western <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Massachusetts</st1:place></st1:State> with her husband, the writer George Howe Colt, and their two children. For more information, visit<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> <A href="http://www.cpl.org/"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none"><a href="http://www.cpl.org">www.cpl.org</a></SPAN></A> </B>or<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> </B>call<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> (216) 623-2800. <o:p></o:p></B></SPAN></P></body></html>