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Perish From the Earth by Professor Perry Lentz

Perry Lentz, Charles P. McIlvaine Professor of English, presented his new novel, Perish From the Earth (XOXOX Press), on Thursday, March 26, at 11:10 a.m. in the Peirce Hall Lounge and on Tuesday, March 31, at 7:00 p.m. in the Brandi Recital Hall.

Lentz, on the Kenyon faculty since 1969, is also the author of the 1967 novel The Falling Hills, which was reissued in 1994 by the University of South Carolina Press, and the 1973 novel It Must Be Now the Kingdom Coming (Crown). He also wrote the 2006 non-fiction book Private Fleming at Chancellorsville: The Red Badge of Courage in the Civil War (University of Missouri Press).