FALL 1999 SERIES   Photograph © Paul Elledge LI-YOUNG LEE, Chinese-American poet, will give a reading on Monday, September 13, at 7:00 in the Recital Hall. Lee was born of Chinese parents in Indonesia. His family, who fled the country after his father was held as a political prisoner for a year, traveled in Hong Kong, Macau, and Japan for 5 years, before arriving in America.         Lee studied at the University of Pittsburg, the University of Arizona, and the State University of New York, College at Brockport. He has also taught at several universities, such as Northwestern University and the University of Iowa.         Among Lee's several honors are grants from the Illinois Arts Council, The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the National Endowments for the Arts. He received the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship in 1989, and the Writer's Award from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation in 1988. Among his publications are Rose, for which he received New York University's Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award in 1987, and The City in Which I Love You, which was the 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets. His memoir, The Winged Seed was published in 1995.   ROSELLEN BROWN, American novelist, will give a reading on Monday, October 4, at 7:00 in the Recital Hall. Brown is the author of four novels (Before and After, Civil Wars, Tender Mercies, and The Autobiography of My Mother); three collections of poetry (Some Deaths in the Delta, Cora Fry, and Cora Fry's Pillow Book). She has also published a collection of stories (Street Games) and a miscellany containing essays, stories and poetry, A Rosellen Brown Reader, one of a series of books by writers associated with the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. She has published widely in magazines and her stories have appeared frequently in O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Short Stories, and Pushcart Prizes. One is included in the recently published best-seller, Best Short Stories of the Century.         She has been the recipient of awards from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Bunting Institute, the Howard Foundation and twice from the National Endowment for the Arts, and was selected one of Ms. Magazine's 12 "Women of the Year" in 1984. Civil Wars won the Janet Kafka Prize for the best novel by an American woman in 1984.         She teaches in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Photograph ©   Photograph © Barry M. Goldstein ANDREA BARRETT, American novelist and short story writer, will give a reading on Monday, October 25, at 7:00 in the Recital Hall. Barrett's most recent book is The Voyage of the Narwhal; her other novels include Lucid Stars, Secret Harmonies, The Middle Kingdom, and The Forms of Water. She is also the author of Ship Fever, a collection of short fiction, which received the 1996 National Book Award. Her stories have appeared in Mademoiselle, Story, and many other magazines, as well as in numerous anthologies. She has received Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and currently teaches in the MFA program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.   JIM CRACE, English novelist, will give a reading on Monday, November 8, at 7:00 in the Recital Hall. He has written Continent, The Gift of Stones, Arcadia, Quarantine, Signals of Distress, and most recently, Being Dead. Crace's first novel, Continent, won several literary honors, such as the Whitbread Award for a first novel, the David Higham Prize for Fiction, the Guardian Fiction Prize, and the Primo Antico Fattore. He won the 1988 GAP International Prize for Literature for The Gift of Stones. In 1998, he won the Whitbread Novel of the Year for Quaratine, a novel which was also shortlisted for The Booker Prize and for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Photograph © Bruce Gilbert   Photograph © Stuart Campbell PETER CAREY, Australian novelist, will give a reading on Monday, November 22, at 7:00 in the Recital Hall. He is the author of several novels and short stories, as well as a children's book, non-fiction work, and screenplay. Illywhacker was shortlisted for the Booker Prize --the highest literary prize in the British Commonwealth-- in 1985, but in 1988 Carey won the award for Oscar and Lucinda. (Oscar and Lucinda was recently a "major motion picture" starring Ralph Feines.) Carey has also won several Australian awards, with both Bliss and Oscar and Lucinda winning the Miles Franklin Award, and Illywhacker and The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith winning The Age Book of the Year Award. In 1986, Illywhacker also won the Ditmar Award for Best Australian Science Fiction Novel and was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel.   PHILIP LEVINE, American poet, will give a reading on Monday, December, at 7:00 in the Empie Theatre. Levine was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1928. He is the author of sixteen books of poetry, most recently The Mercy, which was published in April 1998 by Alfred A. Knopf. His other poetry collections include The Simple Truth, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and What Work Is, which won the National Book Award. Ashes: Poems New and Old received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the first American Book Award for Poetry, 7 Years From Somewhere, won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The Names of the Lost won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. He has also published a collection of essays, The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography, edited The Essential Keats, and co-edited and translated two books: Off the Map: Selected Poems of Gloria Fuertes (with Ada Long) and Tarumba: The Selected Poems of Jaime Sabines (with Ernesto Trejo). He has received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize from Poetry, the Frank O'Hara Prize, and two Guggenheim Foundation fellowships. For two years he served as chair of the Literature Panel of the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches at New York University. Photograph © Fran Levine LIVING WRITERS