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The Kratz Center for Creative Writing at Goucher College is pleased to welcome the novelist Robert Girardi as the spring 2008 writer-in-residence. Mr. Girardi will read from his work on Thursday May 1, 2008 at 8 PM in the Haebler Memorial Chapel as part of the college's Alumnae/i Weekend festivities. The event is free to the public. About the Kratz Center's Spring 2008 Event Featuring Robert Girardi:
About Robert Girardi: Robert Girardi is a Washington, D.C. based novelist and screenwriter. He has also written teleplays for the network television dramas Judging Amy and Joan of Arcadia. His published fiction includes the novels Madeliene's Ghost; The Pirate's Daughter; Vaporetto 13 and The Wrong Doyle; and a collection of novellas A Vaudeville of Devils--7 Moral Tales. Major Hollywood producers have optioned several of the dozen or more original screenplays he has written and his short non-fiction appears in The Washington Post, Washingtonian Magazine, Writer's Harvest, Crisis Magazine, and The New Republic. His work has been translated into six languages, including Estonian and Hebrew. He was the inaugural Discover Young Writer for Barnes and Noble's series of the same name in 1995, and a past recipient of the James Michener Fellowship. He attended the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where he studied English and Studio Art and the University of Southern California's Graduate Film School. He has an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. He lives in Chevy Chase DC with his wife and three children
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