National Book Award winner at Muhlenberg
National Book Award winner Phil Klay will give a public reading of his work on at 7 p.m. Nov. 30 in Miller Forum, Moyer Hall at Muhlenberg College in Allentown.
Klay is a graduate of Dartmouth College and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He served in Iraq's Anbar province from January 2007 to February 2008 as a public affairs officer. After being discharged, he went to Hunter College and received an M.F.A.
His story "Redeployment" was originally published in Granta and is included in "Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War." His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Granta Tin House and elsewhere.
In 2014, "Redeployment" won the National Book Award for Fiction. He was also shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor Prize and named a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree. In 2015, he received the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation's James Webb award for fiction dealing with U.S. Marines or Marine Corps life and the National Book Critics' Circle John Leonard Award for best debut work in any genre.
