Join the Center for Storytelling and the Literary Journalism Program for a reading and discussion with Professor Samuel G. Freedman of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Co-sponsored by the Department of English.
Thursday, November 2, 2023
5-6:30 PM
Humanities Gateway 1030 (Building 611)
UC Irvine School of Humanities
Book sale and signing with the author to follow, sponsored by The Hill. Light refreshments will be served. Parking is available at the Mesa and Student Center parking structures. Free and open to the public. Contact piersonp@uci.edu for more information.
ABOUT SAMUEL FREEDMAN:
Freedman is a former columnist for The New York Times and a current professor at Columbia University, where he teaches the celebrated and much in-demand Book Writing seminar, open by application only. He is the author of ten acclaimed books, including his latest, Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights, which Khalil Gibran Muhammad of The New York Times calls “Riveting. . . . A superbly written tale of moral and political courage for present-day readers who find themselves in similarly dark times."
Freedman’s previous books are Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students and Their High School (1990); Upon This Rock: The Miracles of a Black Church (1993); The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond (1996); Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry (2000); Who She Was: My Search for My Mother’s Life (2005); and Letters To A Young Journalist (2006); and Breaking The Line: The Season in Black College Football That Transformed the Game and Changed the Course of Civil Rights (2013). Small Victories was a finalist for the 1990 National Book Award and The Inheritance was a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize. Upon This Rock won the 1993 Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism. Four of Freedman’s books have been listed among The New York Times’ Notable Books of the Year.
Freedman has contributed to numerous other publications and websites, including The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Daily Beast, New York, Rolling Stone, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Buzzfeed, Salon, Slate, Chicago Sun-Times, Tablet, The Forward, Ha’aretz, The Undefeated, The Root, and BeliefNet.
