National Writers and Artists Center
1234 Smith St.
Madison, WI 59830
555-954-6851
www.
nwac.
org
News Release
November 3, 2010 For more information, contact:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sarah Funderburk
Director of Public Relations
Office: (555) 954-6321
Fax:...
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National Writers and Artists Center
1234 Smith St.
Madison, WI 59830
555-954-6851
www.
nwac.
org
News Release
November 3, 2010 For more information, contact:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sarah Funderburk
Director of Public Relations
Office: (555) 954-6321
Fax: (555) 954-6322
sfunderburk@nwac.
org
Dr.
Alexander Martin Marplan Releases New Book
CHICAGO — Dr.
Alexander Martin Marplan’s new book Ragtime/Jazztime/Greattime is set to go on sale
November 10 for $24.
95 per copy.
Marplan researched and wrote this book after receiving a grant from
the National Urban League to study the foundations of jazz.
Marplan attended high school in Olean, N.
Y.
, where he was salutatorian, captain of the football
team and organizer of the school’s first jazz band.
He then attended Yale on a football scholarship, named
captain his junior year and made the AP first-team all-American in his senior year.
Marplan also served as
president of the Black Student Union junior and senior year.
After graduating nint
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