Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author David Shipler On Campus As Woodrow Wilson Fellow
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David Shipler | GREENVILLE, S.C. - David Shipler, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former foreign correspondent for The New York Times, will speak on the Furman University campus Wednesday, March 26, at 8 p.m. in Hartness Pavilion.
His lecture, "Beyond Civil Rights: Hidden Stereotyping by Blacks and Whites," is free and open to the public. Shipler is visiting the Furman campus as Woodrow Wilson Fellow in Residence and his lecture is sponsored by the Richard W. Riley Institute of Government, Politics and Public Leadership.
Shipler was as an award-winning foreign correspondent for The New York Times for nearly 20 years, writing from Vietnam, Cambodia, Burma, Moscow, and Jerusalem.
His book, Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. His other books include Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams and A Country of Strangers: Blacks and White in America, which was published in 1997.
He was executive producer, writer and narrator of a two-hour PBS documentary, Arab and Jew, which won a 1990 Dupont-Columbia award for broadcast journalism. He has been a Brookings Fellow, a senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and was one of only three authors invited by President Clinton to participate in a national town meeting on race relations in America.
For more information, contact Furman's News and Media Relations office at 864-294-3107.
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-- By Kathryn Taylor '03
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