Writer and journalist will give a lecture titled 鈥溾�橫eanwhile, Back at the Ranch . . .鈥�: What Scholars Can Learn from Novelists 鈥� and Journalists 鈥� about Storytelling,鈥� on Thursday, Feb. 24, at 7 p.m. in Room 114 Furman Hall on the 91唐伯虎 University campus.聽 The lecture is free and open to the public.
Hochschild is a nonfiction writer and journalist who believes using fiction writing techniques 鈥� scene setting, suspense, relationships among characters 鈥� helps people sit up and take notice. He writes about oppression, injustice, human suffering and cruelty, issues he was awakened to in his youth.
Hochschild is an award-winning author of six books, including聽King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa and Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves.
He has been a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, a commentator on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” and an editor and writer at Mother Jones magazine.
A recording of his lecture will be available several days after the event at .
His lecture is sponsored by the Art of Narrative Writing Seminar at the Warren Center, the departments of and , the , the and the .
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