Ohio Dominican Literary Event to Feature Suspense Novelist Karen Harper

February 14, 2005

COLUMBUS, OH - Tickets are on sale now for New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Karen Harper presentation "Realities on the Writing Life: From Ideas to Novel" at Ohio Dominican University on Sunday, April 24, 2005. The event will be held from noon to 1:30 in the Colonial Room of Sansbury Hall on ODU's main campus, 1216 Sunbury Road.

Harper is the featured speaker for the University's annual Monsignor Leonard Fick Literary Brunch, which honors the late Ohio Dominican faculty member. Harper, a lifelong Ohioan, is the author of several historical and contemporary suspense novels. Many of her novels are set within closed societies such as the Amish, Shakers and Seminole Indians.

Dark Road Home and Dark Harvest, both published in 2004, and Dark Angel, to be published in 2005, are set among the Ohio Amish and reveal engaging details about the sect's work, religion and family life.

Harper has also written a historical mystery series featuring Queen Elizabeth I as an amateur sleuth. Before pursuing a full-time writing career, she taught at The Ohio State University and in public schools in the Columbus area.

The brunch begins at noon and will be preceded by a Memorial Mass in Christ the King Chapel at 11:00 a.m. The Mass and literary event are open to the public. The cost for the Literary Event is $17.00 per person. Proceeds from the event benefit the Monsignor Leonard Fick Scholarship Fund, for ODU students majoring in English.

For more information, or to register for the brunch, contact the Ohio Dominican University Alumni/ae Office at (614) 251-4608 or alumni@ohiodominican.edu.