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Article: WRITER ALAN FURST TO SPEAK AS PART OF HARRY RANSOM LECTURES
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 16, 2009
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AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 15 -- The University of Texas issued the following news release:
Historical espionage writer Alan Furst speaks as part of the Harry Ransom Lectures, presented by the University Co-op. A book signing follows.
When: Thursday, Oct. 8, at 7 p.m.
Where: Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin, 21st and Guadalupe streets.
Background: Heir to the tradition of Graham Greene and Eric Ambler, Furst has received critical and popular acclaim for his novels of historical espionage. Furst was born and raised in Manhattan. He lived in the south of France as a Fulbright Teaching Fellow at the Faculte des Lettres at the University of Montpellier, and then in Seattle, ...