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Best-Selling Mystery Writer Paula L. Woods Named
2005-2006 Moseley Fellow in Creative Writing At Pomona
College
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This spring, students at Pomona College have the remarkable
opportunity of studying creative writing with award-winning
mystery writer Paula L. Woods, author of the acclaimed
Charlotte Justice mystery series. Woods, Pomona’s 2005-2006
Moseley Fellow in Creative Writing, is currently teaching
the advanced creative writing course “Mean Streets: Writing
and Reading Mystery Fiction.”
Woods launched her Charlotte Justice mystery series with the
book Inner City Blues (1999), whose lead character is
a smart, tough African American homicide detective in the
Los Angeles Police Department’s elite Robbery-Homicide
Division. The book was on the Los Angeles Times bestseller
list for three weeks and was named by the newspaper as one
of the Best Books of 1999. Later books in the series have
also received recognition and praise. The fourth
installment, Strange Bedfellows: A Charlotte Justice
Novel, was released in January 2006. Woods is also the
editor of the critically acclaimed anthology Spooks,
Spies and Private Eyes: Black Mystery, Crime and Suspense
Fiction of the 20th Century (1995).
On April 20, Woods will give a public reading at Pomona
College, at 7:30 p.m., in the Ena Thompson Reading Room
(108) of Crookshank Hall (140 W. Sixth St., Claremont). The
event is part of the Pomona College Department of English
Literary Series. For more information, contact (909)
607-2212.
The Moseley Fellowship is made possible through funding from
the Louisa and Francis Moseley Memorial Instruction Fund.
The Fund was created in 1985 from an estate gift from
Francis and Louisa Moseley and used primarily "to support
efforts of the English Department of the College to improve
writing of students."
The fellowship is in its fifth year. Previous Pomona College
Moseley Fellows include: Verlyn Klinkenborg, essayist,
author and a regular contributor to the New York Times;
Salvador Carrasco, writer and director of the feature film
The Other Conquest; poet B.H. Fairchild, author of Early
Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest and Janet
Fitch, author of White Oleander.
Pomona College, one of the nation’s premier liberal arts
colleges, provides its students with a challenging
curriculum in the humanities, natural sciences, social
sciences, and fine arts, and an unsurpassed environment for
intellectual inquiry and growth. Its hallmarks include small
classes, close relationships between students and faculty,
and a range of opportunities for student research. For more
information on Pomona Colleges, visit www.pomona.edu. |
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