American Book Review - E. Ethelbert Miller, Dec. 3  ̶  Miller, a literary activist, is the board chairman of the Institute for Policy Studies.  He is a board member of The Writer’s Center and is editor of Poet Lore magazine. Since 1974, he has been the director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University in Washington, D.C.  In 1979, the mayor of Washington, D.C. , proclaimed Sept. 28 of that year as “E. Ethelbert Miller Day.” Mr. Miller was awarded the Mayor’s Art Award for literature in 1982 and received the Public Humanities Award from the D.C. Humanities Council in 1988. In 1993, the literary community of Washington awarded him the Columbia Merit Award. His novel, “In Search of Color Everywhere,” was awarded the 1994 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award and was a Book of the Month Club selection. Mr. Miller received the 1995 O.B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize. In 2004, Miller received a prestigious Fulbright award to visit Israel . For more information about the UHV/ABR Reading Series, call ABR Managing Editor Charles Alcorn at 361-570-4100 or go to www.americanbookreview.org.