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Pulitzer Prize winners at 826Michigan

by Keith Taylor

posted 5/12/2011

What brings a pair of Pulitzer Prize winners to town in May? Nope, it's not the U-M commencement. Novelists Richard Ford and Jeffrey Eugenides will be at 826Michigan's "Storymakers Dinner" at Zingerman's Roadhouse on May 12 to promote an anthology Ford edited for the benefit of the youth literacy group. In an April visit to Ann Arbor, Ford explained that as a solitary writer, "you don't get to do too much for anybody," so he welcomed the invitation to put together Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar: Stories of Work. Along with Ford

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