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Humanities Author Series - Amy Wilentz

The School of Humanities Author Series presents

Amy Wilentz

Thursday, January 17, 2013
6:00 p.m.
Humanities Gateway 1030

Amy Wilentz is a professor in the Program in Literary Journalism at the University of California - Irvine. She is the author of The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier, Martyrs' Crossing, and I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen: Coming to California in the Age of Schwarzenegger. She is the winner of the Whiting Writers Award, the PEN Martha Albrand Non-Fiction Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award, and also a 1990 nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Wilentz has written for countless publications including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Time, The New Republic, Mother Jones, Harper’s, Vogue, Condé Nast Traveler, Travel & Leisure, The San Francisco Chronicle, More, The Village Voice and The London Review of Books. She is the former Jerusalem correspondent for The New Yorker and a long-time contributing editor at The Nation.

Her latest book, Farewell, Fred Voodoo, chronicles Haiti’s dramatic history, rich culture, and long relationship with the United States. Blending travelogue, history, political analysis, and memoir, Wilentz sheds light on the mysteries of Haiti while evoking its irresistible pull for so many outsiders, whose well-intentioned but sometimes-naïve actions often have unforeseen and even destructive consequences.

Event is free and open to the public.

For further information, please email humanities@uci.edu.