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Florida Novelist David Johansson to Speak at Embry-Riddle

David Johansson Daytona Beach, Fla., Nov. 9, 2009 -- Love and betrayal, sex and rivalry, revenge and murder – these universally compelling themes form the core of David Johansson’s new novel, Skin of Sunset.

An English professor at Brevard Community College, Johansson will discuss his novel and the writing process at Embry-Riddle on Tuesday, Nov. 17. The event, which is free and open to the public, is scheduled for 7 p.m. in Building A, Room 109, on Embry-Riddle’s Daytona Beach campus, 600 S. Clyde Morris Blvd. A book sale and autograph session will follow the presentation.

Johansson’s talk is an offering of the Fall 2009 Arts & Letters Series of Embry-Riddle’s College of Arts & Sciences.

Skin of Sunset, Johansson’s first novel, explores all of life's big questions through the lives of the members of a dysfunctional love triangle who belong to the generation caught between Baby Boomers and Generation X.

Reviewer A.L. Kennedy has called Skin of Sunset “a complex, funny, and intelligent exploration of our frailties – perhaps above all, our ability to endlessly and helplessly repeat our most damaging mistakes.”

Johansson currently holds the Vance Endowed Chair in English at Brevard Community College in Cocoa, Fla. He has lectured on literature at Tulane and Princeton universities and also at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and Lund University, Sweden.

His work has appeared in such publications as Reading the Sopranos, a collection of cultural studies examining the popular television show; Poetry Motel; Burning World; Anglo Files; Issues and Identities in Literature; Cyclopedia of World Authors; and Masterplots.

In previous experience, Johansson was a delegate to Oxford and Cambridge universities from the British Council, Britain’s international cultural relations body. He was also a Fellow of the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, one of the oldest artist-residence programs in the nation.

For more information on Johansson and his novel, visit www.skinofsunset.com.

For more information on his Embry-Riddle presentation, call (386) 226-6668 or visit http://erau.edu/arts.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the world’s largest, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace, offers more than 30 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in its colleges of Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Engineering. Embry-Riddle educates students at residential campuses in Prescott, Ariz., and Daytona Beach, Fla., through the Worldwide Campus at more than 170 campus centers in the United States, Europe, Canada, and the Middle East, and through online learning. For more information, visit www.embryriddle.edu.