Kirk Colvin (M.A., creative writing/English, ’98) spent a year as U.S. Coast Guard attaché to the American Embassy during the final months of the brutal Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier regime in the 1980s. His time there informed his novel Bloodless Coup, winner of the Maurice Prize for Fiction.

The Maurice Prize of $10,000 is awarded to UC Davis alumni and was established in 2005 by bestselling author John Lescroart in honor of his father. 

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