The distinguished teaching career of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alison Lurie will be honored this month with a tribute, simply called "Readings for Alison Lurie." The event, sponsored by Cornell University's Department of English and Program of Creative Writing, will be held Friday, Sept. 17, from 4:30 to 6 p.m., in the Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall. It is free and open to the public.

Four of Lurie's former writing students will read for 15 minutes each from a selection of their published works. Guest readers include: Ithaca resident Paul Cody, author of So Far Gone and Eyes Like Mine (Picador USA); Beth Lordan, author of And Both Shall Row (St. Martin's Press); Jason Brown, author of Driving the Heart and Other Stories (Norton); and Micah Perks, author of We Are Gathered Here (St. Martin's Press).

A graduate of Radcliffe College, Lurie joined the faculty at Cornell in 1968 and is the Frederic J. Whiton Professor of American Literature. She has written 10 books of fiction and won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Foreign Affairs. In addition, Lurie has written several well-received nonfiction books, including The Language of Clothes and a collection of essays on children's literature titled Don't Tell the Grownups, and she edited The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales.

Lurie has received fellowships from the Rockefeller and Guggenheim foundations and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

For more information about the upcoming public reading, contact Michael Koch, editor of Epoch magazine, Cornell's literary journal, at (607) 255-3385.