Margaret Edson,an Atlanta kindergarten teacher and this year's Fellowship
drama prize winner, won the Pulitzer Prize in drama yesterday for her play
"Wit," which chronicles a college professor's death from cancer.  The play
will be read Thursday in the Fine Arts Center from 2:15 p.m.- 4:15 p.m.as
part of the Conference on Southern Literature. Edson will not be reading
her play, it will be read by others. However, she will be on stage at the
Tivoli Friday night to pick up her kudos from the Fellows.

Other events that do not require registration/admission include:

-The Livingood Lecture by Wilma Dykeman, novelist and Tennessee State
Historian. Her lecture is entitled "The Many Voices of History" and will be
given on Thursday, April 15 from 5-6pm at the UTC Fine Arts Center.

-"Eudora Welty: Other Places," an exhibit of 22 black and white
photographs, opens today at the Lupton Library and will hang through May 6.
This exhibit presents Miss Welty's photographs of New York City and New
Orleans taken during the 1930s.

You can still register for the conference today by phone (267-1218).
Events will be held on campus and at the Tivoli Theatre this
Thursday-Saturday. For a complete schedule visit the AEC website at
www.artsedcouncil.org

Highlights of the three-day conference include:
- keynote address by Academy Award-winning screenwriter and Pulitzer
Prize-winning playwright, Horton Foote.
- panel discussions/book signings by Charles Frazier, Doris Betts, Kaye
Gibbons, Lee Smith, Shelby Foote, Clyde Edgerton, Romulus Linney, Elizabeth
Spencer, Janice Daugharty, Randall Kenan,  prize-winning poet, Kelly
Cherry, and many other acclaimed novelists and poets.
-musical presentations by the Chattanooga Choral Society for the
Preservation of African-American Songs, under the direction of UTC Music
Professor, Roland Carter; UTC's Rebecca Whelchel's Chattanooga Sings! and
musician Norman Blake.
 - Fellowship prizes to outstanding Southern writers. The 1999 winners
include Shelby Foote, Charles Frazier, Barry Hannah, Bobbie Ann Mason, T.R.
Hummer, James Everett Kibler, Margaret Edson,and Michael Knight.
- Ross Spears' "Tell About the South," the story of southern literature on
film.




Barbara J. Kennedy
News Coordinator
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
423-755-4363 (phone)
423-755-5299 (fax)