Activity Type:
Lecture
Presenter:
Peter Heslsler, 2014/15 William Block Sr. Award Winner
Date:
Thursday, April 16, 2015 - 20:30
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Location:
Pitt Public Health Auditorium (130 De Soto St)
Contact Phone:
412-624-6508
Event Web Site:
Peter Hessler has received the 2008 National Magazine Award for Excellence in Reporting, a 2011 Macarthur Fellowship, and the 2001 Kiriyama Prize. He is the author of River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze; Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip; Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West; and Oracle Bones: A Journey through Time in China, a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award. He is a contributing writer for National Geographic and a staff writer at The New Yorker, for which he has served as the Beijing, China correspondent from 2000 to 2007 and currently covers Egypt.
UCIS Unit:
Asian Studies Center
Non-University Sponsors:
Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series
University Store on Fifth
World Regions:
Asia
East Asia