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'''Elizabeth Nunez''' is a Trinidadian American novelist and distinguished professor of English at Hunter College–CUNY, New York City. Her novels have won a number of awards: ''Prospero's Daughter'' received the New York Times Editors' Choice and 2006 Novel of the Year from ''Black Issues Book Review'', ''Bruised Hibiscus'' won the 2001 American Book Award, and ''Beyond the Limbo Silence'' won the 1999 Independent Publishers Book Award. In addition, Nunez was shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for ''Discretion''; ''Boundaries'' was selected as a New York Times Editors' Choice and nominated for a 2012 NAACP Image Award; and ''Anna In-Between'' was selected for the 2010 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for literary excellence as well as a ''New York Times'' Editors' Choice and received starred reviews from ''Publishers Weekly'', ''Booklist'', and ''Library Journal''.
'''Elizabeth Nunez''' is a Trinidadian American novelist and distinguished professor of English at Hunter College–CUNY, New York City. Her novels have won a number of awards: ''Prospero's Daughter'' received the New York Times Editors' Choice and 2006 Novel of the Year from ''Black Issues Book Review'', ''Bruised Hibiscus'' won the 2001 American Book Award, and ''Beyond the Limbo Silence'' won the 1999 Independent Publishers Book Award. In addition, Nunez was shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for ''Discretion''; ''Boundaries'' was selected as a New York Times Editors' Choice and nominated for a 2012 NAACP Image Award; and ''Anna In-Between'' was selected for the 2010 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for literary excellence as well as a ''New York Times'' Editors' Choice and received starred reviews from ''Publishers Weekly'', ''Booklist'', and ''Library Journal''.
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This event happened on March 16th 2007 at the Folger Elizabethan Theater. This was part of Shakespeare in American Education Conference.

Charles Baxter is the author of the novels The Feast of Love (nominated for the National Book Award), The Soul Thief, Saul and Patsy, Shadow Play, and First Light, and the story collections Gryphon, Believers, A Relative Stranger, Through the Safety Net, and Harmony of the World.  The stories “Bravery” and “Charity,” which appear in There’s Something I Want You to Do, were included in Best American Short Stories. Baxter lives in Minneapolis and teaches at the University of Minnesota and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.


Elizabeth Nunez is a Trinidadian American novelist and distinguished professor of English at Hunter College–CUNY, New York City. Her novels have won a number of awards: Prospero's Daughter received the New York Times Editors' Choice and 2006 Novel of the Year from Black Issues Book Review, Bruised Hibiscus won the 2001 American Book Award, and Beyond the Limbo Silence won the 1999 Independent Publishers Book Award. In addition, Nunez was shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Discretion; Boundaries was selected as a New York Times Editors' Choice and nominated for a 2012 NAACP Image Award; and Anna In-Between was selected for the 2010 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for literary excellence as well as a New York Times Editors' Choice and received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal.