NEW PALTZ – Lauren Sandler, the James H. Ottaway Sr. Visiting Professor of Journalism at SUNY New Paltz and a bestselling author and journalist, will give a public talked titled “This is Not My Story to Tell: Urgent Nonfiction Reported Across Identities and Ideologies” on Tuesday, Feb. 10, at 7 p.m. in Coykendall Science Building Auditorium on the New Paltz campus.
All are welcome to this free and open event, a rare opportunity to hear from a world-class nonfiction writer in a moment when the work of long-form journalists is as crucial as ever.
Lauren Sandler is the author of three books of nonfiction, including the New York Times Notable Book “This Is All I Got: A New Mother’s Search for Home.” A former NPR producer, Sandler’s journalism, essays, and columns have appeared in publications including The New York Times, Slate, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Guardian, and New York Magazine.
She has led Op-Ed Project Public Voices Fellowships at Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth and The University of Virginia, and has taught in the Graduate School of Journalism at NYU. Her work has been recognized with a Yale Poynter Fellowship, a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, the NYU Reporting Award and multiple Calderwood grants.
As Ottaway Visiting Professor at New Paltz, Sandler is teaching an undergraduate journalism seminar titled “Writing the Argument.” Her course focuses on teaching students to marshal the tools of great journalism – evidence, credibility and excellent prose – to develop the rigor and personal voice to write about what matters most.
Sandler is currently at work on her fourth book, “American Prophecy: One Family, Two Nations, And A World on Fire,” about an ideologically divided Southern family, to be published by Random House.
