Feb 6, 2009: Delaune Michel: Reading and Talk at Bard College at Simon's Rock22 January 2009, 4:47 pmDeLauné Michel will be speaking about her book, The Safety of Secrets.
?funny & touching...? Cathleen Schine
?tremendous narrative velocity...? Dani Shapiro
?the perfect read-all-day book...? Jill A. Davis
?the insight of an X-ray.? Merrill Markoe
http://www.harpercollins.com/DelauneMichelDeLauné Michel was raised in south Louisiana in a literary family that includes her mother, Elizabeth Nell Dubus, her uncle André Dubus, and her cousin James Lee Burke. She has worked as an actor in theatre, television, and film. In 1996, Ms. Michel created Spoken Interludes, a critically-acclaimed reading series where award winning, bestselling, and up-coming writers read their own work. In 2001, she made it a non-profit arts organization through which she has developed, has taught in, and continues to run out-reach writing programs for at-risk teenagers in the Los Angeles public high schools and detention halls. The Spoken Interludes reading series has been heard on National Pubic Radio and continues to have readings in Los Angeles and New York. Please visit
www.spokeninterludes.com. The first two stories Ms. Michel wrote won recognition by the Thomas Wolf Short Fiction Award, and later work won the Pacificus Foundation Literary Award. She has performed her nonfiction work on NPR. Her first novel, Aftermath of Dreaming, was published by William Morrow in 2006. She lives in Westchester County, New York with her family, and is currently working on her third novel. For more information, please visit
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