May 13 Friends banquet is free, open to public

The Friends of Joyner Library’s annual banquet and reception is free and open to the public, May 13 at 5 p.m. in the Janice Hardison Faulkner Gallery on the second floor of Joyner Library at East Carolina University.

Paul Green authored “The Lost Colony” and had a particular interest in his home state North Carolina as a playwright and novelist.

ECU’s Dr. Margaret Bauer will speak about “Paul Green – More than The Lost Colony” to discuss Green’s career and legacy. Not only was Green known as the author of “The Lost Colony,” he was a prolific writer of screenplays, dramas, short stories and novels. Green also was a passionate advocate for human rights.

Bauer is the Rives Chair of Southern Literature in the Department of English at ECU, a distinguished professor in the Harriot College of Arts and Science and editor of the North Carolina Literary Review. She has earned numerous awards in teaching, research and literature, including in 2017 with the North Carolina Award for Literature from Gov. Roy Cooper and the R. Hunt Parker Memorial Award from the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association, for her significant contributions to North Carolina Literature.

To RVSP for this event, email Charlotte Fitz-Daniels at fitzdanielsc16@ecu.edu. The Friends of Joyner Library have a variety of benefits and support options to explore on their website.

Online sales and more information through Blair Publisher is available about the book, “Paul Green: North Carolina Writers on the Legacy of the State’s Most Celebrated Playwright.” Bauer is a writer and editor for the book.