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Humorist, writer Blount to receive honor at UNC

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CHAPEL HILL
Humorist and writer Roy Blount Jr. is bringing his wit to UNC.

Blout will receive the school's 2009 Thomas Wolfe Prize and deliver the annual Thomas Wolfe Lecture on Tuesday evening on the Chapel Hill campus.

Blount has written 21 books, inlcuding his most recent, "Alphabet Juice," published in 2008. He's a panelist on the National Public Radio show, "Wait, Wait .. Don't Tell Me."

The annual prize and lecture honor Wolfe, author of "Look Homeward, Angel," who graduated from UNC in 1920.

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