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| Sat Mar 26 2005 09:52 PM |
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Don;t miss a stage reading of the play The Petrakis Universe based on the life Harry Petrakis
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Harry Mark Petrakis is a Greek American author with 60 years authoring career. The event will take place on Monday March 28th 2005 in The Harold M. Proshansky Auditorium (365 5th Avenue and 34th Street, New York), 7:00pm. For more information about the event please check in the attached flyer. In addition, in the following link you can find more information about the Author as Poets & Writers Magazine presents him.
Petrakis has been publishing books for nearly 45 years (his first novel was Lion at My Heart, published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1959), but he struggled for a decade to learn how to write before publishing his first short story, "Pericles on 31st Street," in Atlantic Monthly when he was 32.
Petrakis is the author of the novels A Dream of Kings (McKay, 1966), The Hour of the Bell (Doubleday, 1976), Nick the Greek (Doubleday, 1979), and Ghost of the Sun (St. Martin's, 1990), among others. He has also written memoirs about his Greek-American family, Stelmark: A Family Recollection (McKay, 1970), which was later incorporated into Reflections: A Writer's Life, A Writer's Work (Lake View Press, 1984), and Tales of the Heart: Dreams and Memories of a Lifetime (Ivan R. Dee, 1999). His short fiction was assembled in Collected Stories, published by Lake View Press in 1987.