A state native whose first book has received national recognition is being profiled in a television visit with Mississippi State University president Donald Zacharias.
Brad Watson, a 1978 graduate of the university, is the featured guest for the monthly "Dialog." Zacharias is host for the University Television Center-produced program seen on cable MSTV-30.
The show will air Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. through May 6.
Watson's first book of fiction, "The Last Days of the Dog-Men," was published to critical acclaim last year. This month, it won the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction.
A faculty member at the University of Alabama, Watson recently was named Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in English and American Literature at Harvard University.
He recently visited Mississippi State as a panelist at the Southern Literary Festival, which was organized by the English department.
