The gala, which raises money for the Norman Mailer Center and the Norman Mailer Writers Colony, celebrates college writers and high school teachers in addition to star authors.
Earlier this summer, he was enrolled in Bharati Mukherjee's novel class at the annual Southampton College writers conference -- which despite being only a few years old, draws some of the biggest names in contemporary literature.
By "often" I mean "nearly every time I've made a public appearance at a book store, library, college, writers' conference, or literary expo".
Following the game, several writers, including CBS Sports college basketball writer Jeff Borzello said that Alexander has a valid case to present in terms of being the best high school basketball player in the country (along with Okafor, Turner and Mudiay).
"We would call some of the former players," said O'Connell, now the A.P.'s national college basketball writer.
Sporting News college basketball writer Mike DeCourcy seized on this point, claiming the statistic contains something compelling.
About 18 years ago, after graduation from college, the writer worked as a chauffeur for an old Southern gentleman, and toured through Virginia and the Carolinas.
"I read Parker's Spenser series in college," crime writer Harlan Coben said in 2007 in an interview with the Atlantic Monthly.
Some reporters wasted no time in returning to their blogs; The Advertiser's college sports writer posted at 12 13 a.m.
After college, the writer Irving Kristol, a distant relative, helped her land a job at The China Quarterly, a new journal.
