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Conversations on Writing and Public Life Presents: Howard French, in Conversation with Amy Wilentz

The Conversations on Writing and Public Life Series presents:


"Foreign Correspondence"

with Howard French (Columbia Graduate School of Journalism)

and

Amy Wilentz (UCI English and Literary Journalism)

with an introduction by Jon Wiener (UCI History)


Thursday, May 9, 2013
1:30 PM
Humanities Gateway Building 1010
UC Irvine School of Humanities

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Book sale and signing to follow. Free and open to the public; all welcome.
For more information or for disability accommodations, contact Patricia
Pierson at (949) 824-6876 or piersonp@uci.edu.

Sponsored by the Department of History and the Literary Journalism Program.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies, the
Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, the International
Studies Program, the UCI Bookstore, and the World History MRU. Additional
support provided by the Office of the Chancellor.

ABOUT HOWARD FRENCH:

Howard W. French is an associate professor at the Columbia University
Graduate School of Journalism, where he has taught both journalism and
photography since 2008. For many years, he was a Senior Writer for The New
York Times, where he spent most of a nearly 23-year career as a foreign
correspondent, working in and traveling to over 100 countries on five
continents. Until July 2008, he was the chief of the newspaper’s Shanghai
bureau. Prior to this assignment, he headed bureaus in Japan, West and
Central Africa, Central America and the Caribbean. Mr. French’s work for the
newspaper in both Africa and in China has been nominated for the Pulitzer
Prize. He has won numerous other awards, including the Overseas Press Club
award and the Grantham Prize.

ABOUT AMY WILENTZ:

Amy Wilentz is the author of Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti
(2013), The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier (1989), Martyrs' Crossing
(2000), and I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen: Coming to
California in the Age of Schwarzenegger (2006). She edited and translated
The Parish of the Poor (Orbis Books 1990), a collection of the writings of
Haitian President and political leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide. She
contributed the leading essay to the book Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary
(Harper, 2008). Wilentz 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. She has written for The New York Times, The Los
Angeles, Time magazine, The New Republic, Mother Jones, Harper’s, Vogue,
Condé Nast Traveler, Reconstruction, Travel & Leisure, The San Francisco
Chronicle, More, The Village Voice, The London Review of Books and many
other publications. She is the former Jerusalem correspondent of The New
Yorker and a long-time contributing editor at The Nation.

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