BROOKLYN, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 25, 2006 -St. Joseph's College Council for the Arts and the McEntegart Hall Library are proud to present Ms. Jhumpa Lahiri for the Fall 2006 installment of the Library’s Author Series. Ms. Lahiri will be reading excerpts from her collected works on Thursday, November 9, at 12:40 PM, on the second floor balcony of the McEntegart Hall Library on 222 Clinton Avenue.

Her debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New Yorker Debut of the Year award and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Addison Metcalf Award. It was translated into twenty-nine languages and became a bestseller both in the United States and abroad. In 2002, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, which are traditionally awarded to individuals who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. The following year, Ms. Lahiri released her first novel, The Namesake. Set in Boston and Calcutta, this work examines the nuances of the cultural and generational conflicts that develop with immigrant families adapting to a new lifestyle in a different land.

Born in London, England, and raised in Rhode Island, Ms. Lahiri received her B.A. in English literature from Barnard College and an M.A. in English, an M.A. in Creative Writing, an M.A. in Comparative Studies in Literature and the Arts, and a Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies from Boston University. She currently resides in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.

Founded by Sister Elizabeth A. Hill, CSJ, J.D., President, the St. Joseph’s College Council for the Arts is a coalition of students, faculty members and staff who serve as a focal point for St. Joseph’s College’s educational and community outreach programming in the arts. For more information about this exhibit or other upcoming cultural events at the College's Brooklyn campus, please call (718) 783-0374 or (718) 636-6876.

About St. Joseph's College

St. Joseph’s College has been dedicated to providing a diverse population of students in the New York metropolitan area with an affordable education rooted in the liberal arts tradition since 1916. Independent and coeducational, the College provides a strong academic and value-oriented education at the undergraduate and graduate levels, aiming to prepare each student for a life characterized by integrity, intellectual and spiritual values, social responsibility, and service. With campuses located in the Clinton Hill area of Brooklyn and in Patchogue, Long Island, the College offers degrees in numerous majors, special course offerings and certificates, affiliated and pre-professional programs through its School of Arts and Sciences and its School of Professional and Graduate Studies.