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Michael Steinberg Reads Selected Works in Library

Author Michael Steinberg reads selections of his work Wednesday, March 22, at 5 p.m. in the Alma College library. His reading is free and open to the public.

Michael Steinberg is a memoirist, personal essayist  and founding editor of the award-winning literary journal, Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction. His most recent book, Still Pitching, is a memoir about growing up in New York in '50s, the era that sports historians and journalists refer to as "the golden age of New York baseball." It was chosen by ForeWord Magazine as the 2003 Independent Press memoir/autobiography of the year. Since his arrival at Michigan State University in the mid-60s to obtain M.A. and Ph.D. degrees, Steinberg has lived and taught in Michigan. In 1994 he received an M.F.A. in creative writing.

Other books include Peninsula: Essays and Memoirs from Michigan. The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction  (now in its fourth edition) and Those Who Do, Can: Teachers Writing, Writers Teaching were co-authored with Robert Root.
He is the recipient of the Missouri Review  Editor's Prize, a Roberts Writing Award, the Harness Racing Writers of America Award for feature writing, and a Writer's Voice Fellowship. His essays and memoirs have been published in numerous literary magazines and cited several times in Best American Essays and Best American Sports Writing.

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Alma College was born on Oct. 14, 1886. George F. Hunting was appointed the College’s first president and professor of moral and mental science. The College’s founding was made possible by Ammi W. Wright, a lumberman, businessman and civic leader who gave 30 acres of land and more than $300,000 to found and sustain the institution in its early years.

 

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