Award-winning journalist, author and performer Rubén Martínez will give a talk with a book signing and reception to follow in Special Collections.
A professor at in the Loyola Marymount University department of English, Martínez’s essays, opinions and reporting have appeared in publications such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Salon, the Village Voice, The Nation, Spin, Sojourners and Mother Jones. He is the recipient of a Lannan Foundation Fellowship in Nonfiction, a Loeb Fellowship from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, a Freedom of Information Award from the ACLU, a Greater Press Club of Los Angeles Award of Excellence and an Emmy Award for hosting Public Broadcasting Service-affiliate KCET-TV’s “Life & Times.”
Martinez’s visit to the University is sponsored by the UA Libraries, the College of Humanities, the department of English and the Center for Latin American Studies.
Admission: Free
Audience: All, Large (101-500)
Main Library
Room: A313
Sara Heitshu
University of Arizona Libraries
520-307-2781
heitshus@u.library.arizona.edu
http://www.library.arizona.edu/news/eventDetail.php?evtID=82