Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lawrence Wright will discuss his new book, "Plague Year: Americans in Time of Covid" with Elisabeth Rosenthal of Kaiser Health News. Virtual audience Q&A to follow.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lawrence Wright is a bestselling author, screenwriter, playwright, and a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. Wright is the author of two novels and ten non-fiction books, including the bestseller “Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief," which was adapted as an HBO documentary film, and “The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11” which won the Pulitzer Prize and was also adapted as a Hulu series starring Jeff Daniels, Alec Baldwin, and Tahar Rahim. Wright's work has been translated into 25 languages. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Society of American Historians. He lives in Austin, Texas.
ABOUT THE BOOK
"Wright...has performed a virtuoso feat and given us a book of panoramic breadth… managing to surprise us about even those episodes we … thought we knew well … [With] lively exchanges about spike proteins and nonpharmaceutical interventions and disease waves, Wright’s storytelling dexterity makes all this come alive.”—The New York Times Book Review
ABOUT THE CONVERSATION PARTNER
Elisabeth Rosenthal is the author of bestseller, “An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back” and worked as a correspondent for The New York Times for 22 years. She is currently the editor in chief of Kaiser Health News. She is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and briefly practiced medicine in a New York City emergency room before turning to journalism.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Open Book/Open Mind | Book Discussion | Author Talk |
TAGS: | books |
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