CHARLOTTESVILLE AUTHORS TO HELP COMBAT HUNGER

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Oct. 15 -- Charlottesville authors
will share selections of their works as part of a national benefit
for hunger during "Writer's Harvest:  The National Reading"
Wednesday, Nov. 2, at 7:30 p.m. at the University of Virginia's
Newcomb Hall Theater.
	U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove, poets Charles Wright and Greg
Orr, novelists Rita Mae Brown and Mary Lee Settle, and non-fiction
author Jonathan Coleman will read selections from their works.
Author Sydney Blair will host the event.
	Sponsored by the U.Va. bookstore and Students Against Hunger
and Homelessness, the readings are part of the third annual benefit
for Share Our Strength, a national organization that works to
alleviate and prevent hunger, according to Wayne Terwilliger, a
bookstore manager.
	The suggested minimum donation at the readings is $5.  "One
hundred percent of the funds raised from the Charlottesville event
will go to the Thomas Jefferson Area Food Bank," Terwilliger said.
	For more information on the readings, call (804) 924-1073.
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October 14, 1994