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Newberry College Welcomes Lutheran Author Mark Mustian

January 15, 2013

NEWBERRY, S.C.- A public reading and book signing will be held for Lutheran author, Mark Mustian on January 31 in the West Memorial Recital Hall of the Alumni Music Center. The event is free and open to the public.

Mustian will be reading from his novel, The Gendarme, which received the Florida Humanities Councils gold book award for general fiction in 2010. The novel was short-listed for the Dayton International Literary Peace Prize and the Saroyan International Award for Writing.

The Gendarme was published by Amy Einhorn Books/G.P. Putnams Sons in 2010, with foreign editions in France, Greece, Israel, Spain, Brazil, Bulgaria, the UK, the Czech Republic and Italy.

Mustians short stories have appeared in periodicals such as Stand Magazine, the SNReview, Green Hills Literary Lantern and Opium Magazine. He serves as the chair of the Lutheran Readers Project, a readers resource, writer connection and book club, which is a part of the Lutheran Writers Project, designed to put quality books into the hands and minds of Lutheran readers.

Mark Mustian is an attorney with in Tallahassee, Florida, where he has practiced public finance law for over 25 years. He earned a bachelors degree and Juris Doctor from the University of Florida.


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