Photo by Will Kirk / HIPS

Acclaimed author John Barth, center, read from his latest book, 'The Development', at an event sponsored by the Friends of the Johns Hopkins University Libraries on April 28 at Homewood's Mason Hall. Barth, a National Book Award winner, earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Johns Hopkins and is a professor emeritus in the Writing Seminars in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. He is pictured here with Winston Tabb, Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and Museums, and university trustee Peter Meyer, a 1966 graduate of Arts and Sciences.

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